Erik Strand
Estonian Prime Minister does not only want a defeat for Russia’s illegal warfare in Ukraine. In a debate she has said that the conflict between Moscow and Kiev should also end with the breakup of Russia. Most people intuitively understand that calling for the breakup of a souvereign nation, especially a powerful one, is not the safest road to peace and stability.
Kaja Kallas is not alone in calling for the breakup of Russia. Thanks to the Norwegian author Lars Birkelund’s book “Krig, som bestilt?” (“War, as ordered”, page 156-157), I have become aware of some examples of people who like to meddle in other countries’s affairs to the extent that they call for their dissolution. In his article ‘Decolonize Russia’, Casey Michel informs the reader that one who was vocally symphatetic to the idea of breaking up the Russian state, was no other than former US vice president Dick Cheney.
Another (in)famous public person who has uttered similiar ideas, is former US president Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński. In his debate article from 1997, A Geostrategy for Eurasia, he called for “a loosely confederated Russia”, consisting of a European Russia, a Siberian republic and a republic in the Far East.
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