Abstract

Clearly, stratocratic Russia's aim is the expansion of it empire and, ultimately, world domination. At an even deeper level, the entire impersonal dynamics and inertia of the Russian regime is oriented in this direction. External expansion is not an “idea” in the mind of Kremlin leaders: it is inscribed in the very structure of the regime, materialized in the state of productive forces, of the economy, of society, in their division between the efficacious military and the scanty non-military sectors. It is also inscribed negatively in all that is lacking: the regime's domestic impasse, the demise of Communist ideology, the collapse of every Party project.