American Chronicle: Why Russia always failed in the Middle East - by Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

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Why Russia always failed in the Middle East - by Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

For a country like Russia, with leading academia and famous historians, linguistics, the political failure in the Middle East becomes even stranger a phenomenon to interpret. Before and after the rise of Soviet Union, and down to our days, the Russian universities have been acknowledged for their leading scholars in all Middle East – related Humanities, all branches of Orientalism, African Studies, History of Religions and Islamology, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Ethnography, and Linguistics.The Russians never developed the diplomatic and cultural tools the French and the English employed in the case of numerous colonies, India, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Abyssinia, etc. For the Russians, expansion meant always land annexation, and totalitarian rule; they were able to apply this policy in the case of Central Asia and parts of the Transcaucasia they detached from either the Ottoman Empire or Iran. However, this approach jeopardized the Russian approach to the Middle East.