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Why Russophobia Has Become a Moral Obligationquote:
Is there a moral alternative to Russophobia after Russia’s reported deliberate destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine? Unfortunately, probably not. In light of Russia’s apparent wholesale embrace of barbarism, Russophobia — or, hatred of the state, not of the people — has become a valid moral response to the evil that the Kremlin represents, both for non-Russians and Russians.
Today’s Russia invaded Ukraine and Chechnya twice and Georgia once. It committed genocide in Chechnya and is intentionally destroying Ukraine and Ukrainians. The Kremlin routinely threatens to destroy its enemies with nuclear weapons and is indifferent to the lives of its own subjects. It kidnaps children, bombs hospitals, museums and schools. It kills its opponents and jails protestors. And it shows no remorse; quite the contrary, it either denies having done anything wrong, or admits to its crimes proudly.
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The truth is uncomfortable but it needs to be said: The Russian state is the embodiment of wanton violence and destruction. Russia is not, as Winston Churchill once said, a riddle, mystery or enigma. The essence of Russia is perfectly clear: It is, to use Ronald Reagan’s famous phrase, an “evil empire.”
Russia’s non-Russian neighbors know all too well that their encounters with Muscovy and its later hypostases — the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation — brought little comfort and much pain. Western Europeans and North Americans may lecture them about the logical pitfalls of all-too-embracing generalizations, but the non-Russians know that the only logic that matters to them and their survival is that of inexorable Russian expansionism and unwavering Russian indifference to or pride in the crimes committed in their name.
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Can one fault the non-Russians for being Russophobes? Can one fault the Balts, Poles, Georgians and Ukrainians, in particular, for hating Russia and damning it to hell? Not at all. Both morality and the existential need to survive dictate that Russophobia is the only possible response to the Russian state’s evil. Russia’s decision to supplement the genocide of Ukrainians with the ecocide of Ukraine has made Russophobia a moral obligation and a badge of honor.
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Ultimately, Russophobia exists and will continue to exist because the Russians tolerate and embrace the crimes of their state. The ball is in their court. If they fail to turn against Russia and make it democratic, Russophobia will disappear only after the Russian state follows in the footsteps of other imperial dictatorships and disappears.
Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, as well as “Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires” and “Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective.”
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