23.06.2025, Moscow.
The hope for friendship with the West that certain part of the Russian elite has is a relict of a project aimed at integration into Europe that was launched back in the Soviet period, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on May 30 on the program Conversation with a Sage on radio Zvezda.
The political scientist urged to think about the question why the US is offering a ceasefire in Ukraine. Attempts to present the US president as the main defender of peace and lives, according to Sergey Kurginyan, look ridiculous.
“Does the cowboy culture show a strongly negative reaction to any bloodshed? Is it really so philanthropic and soft? And he (Trump) has a philanthropic face, like a crocodile. A very big crocodile. So, deal, deal, deal etc. All based on blood,” Sergey Kurginyan explained.
He noted that, in spite of the armed conflict in which the Western countries are fighting against Russia using Bandera Nazis as a proxy, many members of the Russian political elite still believe that a friendship with the US is possible.
“So, we can still be friends. We will become friends soon, we will open our economy, we will do something else. But what is it? It is relicts of an old project of integration into Europe, which began in the Soviet Union, and which was essentially Trotskyist. Erenburg called it ‘E.N. Trust,’ he had a novel ‘Europe now!’ Trotsky said, ‘We need the productive forces of Germany and other countries, we cannot build our own ones.’ But Andropov said, ‘We have built our own ones, now we will dismantle them,’” Sergey Kurginyan explained.
The philosopher reminded that for the sake of this project of integration into Europe the USSR stopped the development of the Elbrus operating system (which is called advanced today) under the pressure of Western politicians such as UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
According to the analyst, in early 2000s he was invited to a conference on energy wars. “We are gathering, and I have a talk at the conference. Why not? A major Gazprom official, with apparently KGB background, dressed in Brioni, says, ‘What wars? What are you talking about?’ The organizers of the conference say, ‘What do you want? Why? Do not we have competition? Do we have cooperation? Interaction?’”
Sergey Kurginyan then argued that what we should then do with a book by Daniel Yergin The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power that is taught in all the universities in the world and that discusses these wars.
“I can deliver talks on energy wars in Deli, in Beijing, in Tel Aviv, or somewhere in Athens. How are you going to hide them? They are in all universities worldwide,” the political scientist replied to the Gazprom official.
In response, this member of a major company said, “You can deliver those talks on energy wars in Deli, Beijing, or even better in Tel Aviv. But not here.”
The analyst noted that now this can be illustrated with the situation around the Nord Stream explosion.
“Was not the situation around Nord Stream an energy war? Is this a free competition? You built it, and they ruined it. What now? You swallow it and go on as if nothing happened, and there are no energy wars?” the political scientist reminded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
