Last Resort For Eurasian Idea

HAKOB BADALYAN
12:05 16/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

Vladimir Putin has actually admitted that the Eurasian Union is not a
viable idea. Evidence to this is Putin’s instruction for the Federal
Bureau of Security to defend Eurasian integration. If integration
needs to be defended with the help of special services the
peculiarities and methods of which are known so it is possible to
guess what kind of integration it will be.

In other words, the authors of the idea lack arguments so their last
argument is force – the Federal Bureau of Security.

The Soviet idea was also maintained and defended by force – by the KGB
– for a long time. This method did not succeed. Those were years of
persecution, tens of thousands of people lost their youth, families
suffered, destinies were ruined but the Soviet idea failed, and the
state built on this idea disappeared.

Because an idea cannot be supported by force. Force can solve
political issues or meet geopolitical interests. Efforts to establish
democracy in different countries by means of force have not succeeded.
Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. The military forces in those countries
merely provide political or geopolitical presence while the idea of
democracy remains alien to their societies.

In the case of the Eurasian idea it is actually suggested to create
it, not maintain it by force. At best, there will be another period of
persecution which will not save the Eurasian idea anyway.

It must be attractive for the states to which it is offered. Efforts
to keep the idea by force are doomed as similar other efforts in any
part of the world.

Integration is successful when the subjects are offered mutually
profitable and dignified conditions which even if they suppose any
limitation of sovereignty are based on the principle of parity and are
not in favor of the `father’ or `godfather’ of integration which uses
the idea to gain additional levers of influence on the other subjects.

Moscow needs to think about it. Eurasian integration defended or
imposed by means of the FBS will not lead to development but will lead
to decline of its subjects. If the FBS is the last resort or already
force is needed, it is worthwhile to give up the dying Eurasian idea
and move forward.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress