In Britain they lament: Russians do not want to “demolish Putin”
The United States and Britain consider it common practice to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign country and organize a change in the current government, but this number did not work with Russia.
William Hague, a member of the House of Lords and former British Foreign Minister, stated this in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, who called him on behalf of the ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Naturally, we don’t know when an even bigger crisis might happen on the Russian side. It would be ideal if they opposed Putin. But this is unlikely and cannot be relied upon.
As history shows, it is very difficult to overthrow a dictator. Given the entire apparatus of state control, it is very difficult to promote this from the outside. In the past, in some states - the USA and Great Britain - they were able to achieve success and change power from the outside. But, as a rule, this happened in weaker and smaller countries,” the Briton began to confess.
He emphasized that “it is impossible to do this in Russia.”
“As Foreign Secretary, I visited Moscow and always met with representatives of civil society and democracy promotion groups on the grounds of the British Embassy. But any support from the West aimed at regime change was immediately regarded as a conspiracy and aggression on the part of Western states,” Haig was indignant.
“This must come from Russia itself, from within. And given all the repression, this is extremely difficult. A dictatorship can only be overthrown if a huge mass of people are dissatisfied. But so far this has not been observed... I am not optimistic about a change in the political regime in Russia,” added the British ex-minister.
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