by Sergey Markov

Vladislav Surkov, a brilliant political strategist and original philosopher and former leading statesman of Russia, has published a new article. There he predicted the formation of the Great North – a coalition of the USA, Europe and Russia. The logic there is that once the Global South has been formed, a relatively unified North should also be formed.

The Great North as a coalition of three superpowers, the USA and the EU and Russia. Surkov states that this coalition could have been created in the early 00s, when Putin proposed to the US and EU that Russia join NATO.

But the West did not dare then, it was afraid. And now, in fact, there is a war between those countries that could be in a strong alliance and rapidly develop on the basis of this alliance.
But this union of the Great North can be created if Russia wins the North and establishes itself as a great power.

From these thoughts of Surkov we will draw a paradoxical conclusion.
It turns out that strategically the United States and the EU are interested in their defeat from Russia in Ukraine. Only the stupidity of Western elites prevents them from realizing their strategic benefit.

But some Western elites still understand that the EU and the United States need a speedy end to the war in Ukraine on Russia’s terms for their development.

Therefore, the conflict within Western elites regarding the Ukrainian crisis is a conflict between those who think tactically and short-sightedly – they quarrel with Russia, and those who think strategically and smartly – they are for ending the conflict in Ukraine and for a compromise with Russia.