A year ago, Putin was planning to control all of Ukraine and threaten NATO, but today he has little control over the situation in Russia itself.
There is no effective escalation on the front, the economy collapses, the bluff about a “terrible offensive” has failed, and the Ukrainian Defence Forces are preparing their counter-offensive.
Such a scenario is inevitable for an authoritarian regime. The price of this loss is the fall of Russia in the future world order from the first or second category of countries to the third or fourth. It is the level of service of the first categories—the way to the technological periphery with elements of the grey zone.
According to the politician, we are entering twenty years of instability in the world, where the main task of the army and the state in the security sphere is not to fight but to prevent wars, to save the lives of their citizens, to give them an opportunity of calm energy and development.
After the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, many post-Soviet countries were under the illusion that there would be no more wars and were dealing with armies on a residual basis.
The important thing now will be to focus on betting on their defense forces and the military-industrial complex. Having a modern, mobile, and high-tech army is the main argument for peace on their territory,” the politician added.
