Moscow's Western “partners” are outraged whenever Russia, in concert
with China, puts obstacles in the way of the new world order. Syria, albeit
a regionally important country, only fleetingly tops the agenda, but
Putin's ambitious plan for the whole Eurasia - “reaching a higher level
of integration – a Eurasian Union” - had to be expected to evoke deep
and lasting concerns in the West. Moscow openly challenges the West's
global dominance by “suggesting a model of a powerful supranational union
that can become one of the poles of today's world while being an efficient
connecting link between Europe and the dynamic Asia-Pacific Region”. No
doubt, Putin's messages that “the combination of natural resources,
capital, and strong human potential will make the Eurasian Union
competitive in the industrial and technological race and the race for
investor money, new jobs, and advanced production facilities” and that
“along with other key players and regional institutions such as the EU,
the USA, China, and APEC, it will ensure the sustainability of global
development” sounded alarming to Western leaders.

Neither the collapse of the USSR and the bipolar world nor the subsequent
proliferation of pro-Western “democracies” marked a final point in the
struggle over global primacy. What followed was an era of military
interventions and displacements of defiant regimes with the help of
information warfare and the omnipresent Western soft power. In this game,
Eurasia remains the main prize in line with John Mackinder's geopolitical
imperative by which “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who
rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island
controls the world”.


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