People are being sold “Russianness” instead of “stability”, the West is threatened with nuclear weapons - experts about the film about Crimea
Moscow – Kyiv, March 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – The film about Crimea shows that instead of the exhausted myth “Putin is stability,” the Kremlin is feeding the people the myth “Russian Putin is a winner for the Russians,” experts say. The West is being made to understand that if it does not take into account the interests of the top of the Russian Federation, it is ready to use nuclear weapons. At the same time, Putin wants to quickly end the costly war in Donbass.
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This opinion was expressed, in particular, in interview “Echo of Moscow” is the owner and editor-in-chief of “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” Konstantin Remchukov.
According to him, the myth about the new Putin, Putin the winner, Putin the savior of Russians, is for domestic politics. Russians receive that “we are Russians, we will not allow ourselves or others to be offended,” notes Remchukov.
“And the West must receive a different message: we will stop at nothing to protect our interests. We have weapons of such terrible destructive power that if you do not accept us as equals, then you may have problems. If you accept us as equals, then let’s talk about our interests taking into account yours.”
“As I understand it, Putin still wants to end the war in eastern Ukraine, but (the security forces) don’t want to, they want titles, awards and money,” says Remchukov. “But Putin understands that more serious economic problems may appear and affect his rating.”
Remchukov calls the strategy of maintaining the rating through “victory of Russians for Russians” “too politically technologically costly.”
The same opinion is expressed in his блоге on “Echo” is Putin’s former adviser living in the USA, Andrei Illarionov.
According to him, with this film, Putin “again records in the Russian public space his personal participation in the seizure of Crimea as a justification for the lack of alternative to his own personal power: “Our advantage was that I was personally involved in this... Because when the top officials of the state do this , it’s easier for performers to work”; “This could not have been done by the decision of anyone other than the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.”
In addition, Putin once again shows the United States his readiness to use Russian nuclear weapons, reminding Washington “of previously made proposals for joint participation in the formation of a new system of international relations with de facto recognition by the West of the sphere of privileged interests of the Kremlin.”
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