Since power needs the latent presence of chaos as a source of legitimacy, then chaos itself is legitimized and, ironically, may even be celebrated. When Russia actively pursues the destabilization of countries such as Ukraine, this is partially in order to appeal to a rather crude hierarchy of power, between those states that can create order within their borders and those that fail at this basic task. … (S)ince disorder is created from Moscow, order can only be re-stablished from Moscow.

Bruno Maçães (2018). The Dawn of Eurasia. On the Trail of the New World Order, p 195