Russia, obstacle to US hegemony: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Manuel Ochsenreiter, editor-in-chief of Zuerst in Berlin, about remarks by US Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford , the nominee to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told Congress that Russia poses the greatest security threat to the United States.

Following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you feel about this quite straightforward anti-Russia statement?

Ochsenreiter: Such statements coming from the American side are not true, not so rare. I think we are used to these views since many, many months. We are hearing especially when it comes to Ukraine that they should deliver weapons, they should support the Ukrainian army, support the Ukrainian militias, the so-called volunteer units in their fight against the self-defense units in eastern Ukraine.

But I think, ironically or in a sarcastic way, the Americans are not so wrong in their view because we have to see that we have two complete different models of state ideas when it comes to the US and when it comes to Russia. So the US is very used to, they have [hegemonic] idea of state. They have the idea of worldwide dominance and not just dominance in military terms, but also dominance in the so-called catalog of Western values.

This went very well since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-91. Now all of the sudden, they see an obstacle, they see an opponent rising: and this is Russia. It is the old opponent of the old Cold War and the opponent has another ideological pattern and another ideological program and this is the program of independence and the program of sovereignty that is very attractive to many countries in the world including the BRICS states for example.

So they offer an alternative to…American liberal world domination and this is seriously a threat for all those in Washington who hope for [hegemonic] dominance. We should not forget that in the meantime a lot of…American foreign experts are speaking not anymore about foreign politics, they speak about world’s inner politics when it comes to their political actions all around the world and this has a lot to mean. 

So Russia is indeed the biggest threat and the biggest obstacle for those plans of a unipolar world governed by Washington, Russia’s stance right now for multipolarity and this is a threat, yes.

Press TV: I am wondering any hopes of an end to this Cold War are quite dim, aren’t they?

Ochsenreiter: No, this Cold War simply can end in the moment. There are just two solutions to end this war if we watch it right now. Solution number one, America gets back its [hegemonic] position that would mean that there would be a regime change in Russia; there would be something like a color revolution; Russia would disappear as a world power, it would be pushed back to just be a regional power.  So this would be scenario number one. This is the scenario right now Washington is working on.

Scenario number two would be that in Washington the multipolar order of the world would be accepted. That would mean to say goodbye to the worldwide hegemonial plans.

So these are the two possible scenarios right now. Both scenarios are right now very unlikely. So we live right now in the geopolitical competition between those two world models. But if we look what is happening in the world right now when we see that more and more countries which were somehow affiliated in the past to the western hemisphere that they see the advantages of the multipolarity model, the advantage of sovereignty, the advantage of independence, the advantage of living on your own development, on cultural, national [development] and of course also in your security model way, we see a slow swift going from the West to the East to say it now in a very basic way and it can be that Washington will lose in long-term all its allies.

If we look for example at what is happening right now in the European Union, we have a lot of political forces which are very critical towards the West and which are gaining more and more support by the population in different European countries. So US is about to lose their positions while the model of multipolarity is about to win more positions.  

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