The «Anaconda Loop» in the post-Soviet space

Abstract

A political and sociological analysis of official documents of ministries and departments of a number of Western states, analytical reports of international military and non-governmental organizations, as well as publications by leading Western media allowed the authors to identify the increasingly relevant activities of Western governments to intensify the implementation of the geopolitical concept of the famous political scientist and Russophobe Zbigniew Brzezinski about the formation of a constantly shrinking ring of hostile states around Russia, "The Anaconda Loop." In recent years, an important motivational addition to the concept has been the economic factor, which is expressed in the tight binding of the economies of the “ring" countries to the economy of the collective West. Using the example of Ukraine and the countries of Central Asia, the article reveals the ideology and technology of involving the sovereign states of the former USSR in the system of aggressive Russophobic forces of the planet.