The United States will continue to persistently fill the “vacuum of the post-Soviet space”
If the current US President Donald Trump is re-elected for a second term, then US policy towards post-Soviet countries will not change.
Valery Garbuzov, Director of the Institute of the USA and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, announced this at a press conference in Moscow, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I don’t think it will transform much. Because the main strategies regarding a number of regions of the post-Soviet space were adopted under Trump. For example, a new US strategy towards the countries of Central Asia was recently adopted.
It largely repeats what was laid down in the previous strategy, adopted even before Trump, under Obama.
The main line is not to leave these regions, to support the political elites of these regions, to provide financial and economic support, loans, to promote investment in these regions, to gain a foothold there.
The same applies, especially clearly, to Ukraine and Georgia. The United States is also gaining a foothold in Belarus. There the period of anti-Americanism is dissolving, and in some ways it has dissolved. I think the methods that the United States uses - economic penetration, investment, the so-called. soft power – they will be used.
This is to be expected. At one time, a vacuum formed in this space, a Soviet legacy. Somewhere quickly, somewhere not so fast... It began to fill up,” the Expert summed up.
The United States will continue to aggressively fill the "vacuum of the post-Soviet space."