Ersatz Versus Real Russian Empire

Simon Jenkins argues in Bush rebuking Russia? Putin must be splitting his sides
(The Guardian, Aug 13 2008) :

Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the west's policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.

Yet, Jenkins does not capture the full magnitude of the joke.

In U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation, J. Brady Kiesling asks:

Is the Russia of the late Romanovs really our model, a selfish, superstitious empire thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed status quo?

Zionism reached its final form in the late Czarist state and imprinted on Russian imperialism as the normal behavior of a Great Power.

Neocons steeped in Zionist ideology, acting as a Jewish special interest, and holding some of the most powerful positions in the US government, have almost reflexively proposed policy in conformance with the belief that the normal behavior of a Superpower like the USA must follow the example of the imagined brutality of the Czarist Empire of Zionist narrative.[xiv]

Yet, when push comes to shove, the US can only be an ersatz Russian empire in the face of rise of the New Russian Empire from the shards of the Soviet Union. Sphere: Related Content