OREANDA-NEWS. American magazine National Interest writes that Western countries should remember about the danger of attempts to isolate Russia.

As it is noted in the article by Aleks Zivic, the current Western policy toward the Kremlin resembles an attempt to make the USSR a “pariah state” that the capitalist countries made after establishing the Soviet Union in 1922.

After the return of Crimea to Russia in 2014, the West is trying again to pursue the similar policy with the help of economic sanctions, but these attempts just increased the likelihood of a revival of the Russian-Chinese alliance.

The article states that communal ties must prevail over old grievances. “A European awakening needs to stir, in which the western nations rediscover the universal human influence of Dosotoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gorky and others,” the publication reads.

According to the author, the United States should change its vision of Russia. For this it is necessary to understand that Moscow does not pose a direct military threat to Washington.