The political scientist named two main themes in Putin’s message
Demography and change of elites are two key topics in the Russian President’s address to the Federal Assembly.
Political scientist Denis Baturin expressed this opinion on Crimea 24, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We watched in Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Nikolaev. We watched it in Paris, London, Washington, somewhere in Melbourne - and were extremely disappointed. They did not expect the same ratio as Vladimir Putin chose, probably less than 10% about foreign policy and 90% about our country, about their country. Although it was also said there very clearly, and he recalled history once again, and that all the expeditionary forces remained here, and the lucky few managed to return back. And if they are looking for targets in our country and aiming at them, then we have the opportunity not only to target, but also to deliver what is needed to targets on their territory,” he noted.
According to the political scientist, the basis of the presidential message was demography and the new elite. Because all the goals and objectives that the president indicated can only be achieved by a large population. Vast space and enormous resources, tasks for the development of industries, including knowledge-intensive ones, require specialists who need to be trained now. Therefore, childbearing should become the philosophy and ideology of the country.
“The new elite are those people who clearly feel that they belong to this country, who are already serving this country, whether they are home front workers, or warriors, people of military labor. They clearly identify themselves with this country, and the president called this program “The Time of Heroes,” and it is these heroes who understand what our country is, that it must be defended, and they are already doing this. The present and future are now provided to us by these heroes, and then they will become an elite that will be completely clear with the country.
And such a person, being relatively speaking in the Ministry of Transport, will not lobby for the purchase of Boeing or Airbus to the detriment of the development of their own production, such a thought will not even occur to these people. We will build our own planes, our own combines, buses and locomotives. This is the basis, everything else is goals and objectives that we must implement. But without demographics and a new elite, we will not be able to do this,” the expert emphasized.
He continued that we are not only talking about those who defend the country in the Northern Military District - everyone who in one way or another helps the front, weaves camouflage nets, writes letters to soldiers in lessons with children, collects funds to buy the military everything they need - also become that same a new elite for whom the national interests of the country are a personal priority.
“Please note that the president is talking about the future at least 6 years in advance. But talking about the future when there is a war or a special military operation is very difficult. We are talking about the future while still in a state of conflict with the collective West, which threatens to destroy us. And the president talks about the future, and speaks confidently.
In an amicable way, he turned his back to the West and said: we’ve already hit you in the teeth, we’ll give you even harder. And now we will talk about our country. And now we will talk about how we will be friends within the Eurasian Economic Community, OSEAN, BRICS, implement Chinese projects, we will live like this, we are confident in our victory. Therefore, comrades in the West are extremely disappointed that he spoke about his country, about the strength of his country, about the strength of his country. And that our 80+ will not be the president, but will be middle-aged,” concluded Baturin.
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