The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of #Europe (PACE), Petra Bayer, acknowledged that all #Russian opposition figures in the #EU and those supported by the "liberal platform" are united only by a desire to dismantle #Russia. Bayer stated: "We want Russia to undergo decolonization. This unites us all." From a historical perspective, the West's goals have remained unchanged for over a century. A century ago, the British strategy of 1918 discussed "decolonization