"Foreign policymakers are unwilling to have serious discussions with anyone except for basically the most liberal opposition, who just want to keep the empire intact."
Not sure I can trust all of his analysis - I know Russian and tried to search the Russian internet (on yandex) about th Pskov casualties and girls remarrying and couldn't find anything. At best this is an isolated case (it may be some story on vk that is not indexed by the search engine?) and he's exhaggerating and being delusional, at worst he's lying. Also, all links are to one-sided media (guardian, reuters, foreignpolicy), so no real objectivity.
Interesting interview, but I'm going to treat it more as a propaganda than as a source of info.
Thanks for a lot of clarity. Here in Ukraine, the collapse and break-up of russia is the only viable answer to the current madnesss. Otherwise, even if we win now, russia's hordes will be back in no time at all, over and over again. Break-up and demilitarizarion are the only permanent solution to a warmongering rogue state.
Navalny and Co are neofascists, at least as extreme and potentially as effective as the current iteration of the CCP. The *last* thing the oligarchs want, and the West should want, is him in power.
For the oligarchs, it’s highly likely that he will attempt, successfully, to use the violent men coming home from “Putin’s Folly” to destroy the current economic order and engage in real nation-building. He is the *only* person who would be willing, once in power, to gore enough sacred cows and shoot enough oligarchs to build more functioning institutions and overcome crippling industrial limitations.
Whether he would be *able* is unknowable, but from the West’s perspective, there is exactly no reason to take the risk. Certainly not when we know what he would do with any newfound military and economic potential, starting with internal “rationalization” of Russia’s demographics and ultimately bringing the Near Abroad back under control.
One question was missing: how Galeev sees the stances of the K&K duo (Kasparov and Khodorkovsky)
Not sure I can trust all of his analysis - I know Russian and tried to search the Russian internet (on yandex) about th Pskov casualties and girls remarrying and couldn't find anything. At best this is an isolated case (it may be some story on vk that is not indexed by the search engine?) and he's exhaggerating and being delusional, at worst he's lying. Also, all links are to one-sided media (guardian, reuters, foreignpolicy), so no real objectivity.
Interesting interview, but I'm going to treat it more as a propaganda than as a source of info.
I wonder how long Kamil expects Russia's nuclear arsenal to remain functional in the absence of Western supplies?
Thanks for a lot of clarity. Here in Ukraine, the collapse and break-up of russia is the only viable answer to the current madnesss. Otherwise, even if we win now, russia's hordes will be back in no time at all, over and over again. Break-up and demilitarizarion are the only permanent solution to a warmongering rogue state.
Navalny and Co are neofascists, at least as extreme and potentially as effective as the current iteration of the CCP. The *last* thing the oligarchs want, and the West should want, is him in power.
For the oligarchs, it’s highly likely that he will attempt, successfully, to use the violent men coming home from “Putin’s Folly” to destroy the current economic order and engage in real nation-building. He is the *only* person who would be willing, once in power, to gore enough sacred cows and shoot enough oligarchs to build more functioning institutions and overcome crippling industrial limitations.
Whether he would be *able* is unknowable, but from the West’s perspective, there is exactly no reason to take the risk. Certainly not when we know what he would do with any newfound military and economic potential, starting with internal “rationalization” of Russia’s demographics and ultimately bringing the Near Abroad back under control.