Putin threatened to mirror the US crime in Ukraine

Last week, US President Joe Biden slipped his tongue again. But this time it is very successful: “Russia must stop attacks on Russia.” After all, he is right – in the 90s the country was so “mined” that without a victory on the domestic front it would be very difficult to achieve something significant, vital.

There is one major contradiction within our device that explains a lot. Policy is always determined by the economically dominant class. But we don’t. We have a higher, namely the highest, political leadership, which is trying to determine the path of development and the way of life of the country, looks inside Russia, and the economically dominant class looks outside, to the West. If, looking at what is happening, how the “decisions of the party and the government” are being carried out, keep this contradiction in mind, then there is no need to be surprised.

But surprisingly, it would seem that Putin opened up and told last week how he met in the Kremlin with Prigozhin and three dozen Wagner PMC commanders. Which, it seems, are rebels, and which, according to Putin again, represent a non-existent structure, the classic “ihtamnets.” There is already a large field for reflection, but the main phrase that was said at this meeting by the president is: “Well, you are in the Kremlin.” In the sense – they wanted to talk, here you are. That is, the president was ready to listen to the fighters and solve problems, but in the usual, constructive way, information did not reach him for some mysterious reason? See the paragraph above for the answer.

This week, the idea of ​​the murdered Boris Nemtsov “to transfer officials to the Volga” was resurrected again. Now it is being promoted by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin: “We have Moskvich, we have Lada. According to him, in the current situation, “we must by no means feed our enemies,” who will be able to use this money to support Ukraine. They also began to ban officials from using iPhones in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Rostec and the Ministry of Digital Development. The Ministry of Industry and Trade went even further – forbade employees to use tablets on any operating systems for work purposes, except for the domestic Aurora, and invited smartphone and tablet manufacturers to develop a schedule for introducing the Aurora OS to their devices and start selling them in the consumer segment. The fact is that the mine laid in the 90s “why do we need to produce our own, we will buy everything in the West” – it is still ticking. Putin acknowledged this last week: “Some countries, by any means, tried to literally get our country hooked on foreign technological platforms and standards. And I must admit, not without success. This was clear even before, so talks about import substitution began. What did they actually become? They replaced a lot of imports, huh? Marvelous? No. And you know why.

Now the path of coercion has been chosen. If an official or a deputy travels on a Grant, uses a domestic smartphone – you see, and the production of high-quality, technologically complex Russian things will grow. The idea can be scaled up – attach officials and deputies to district clinics, oblige them to live in mass construction houses, force them to send their children to ordinary schools and kindergartens, and so on … An interesting life will begin.

Another week, the murder of the ex-captain of the Krasnodar submarine Stanislav Rzhitsky was committed. Karateka Sergey Denisenko was detained and confessed to the murder on instructions from the Ukrainian special services. A fairly well-known Ukrainian figure who lived quietly in Russia. However, this is a classic of the work of the special services. But from the assassination attempt on Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak, prevented by the FSB, the Ukrainians immediately began to disown. Why did it happen? And everything is very simple. Unlike Dugin, Prilepin, Tatarsky, both Simonyan and Sobchak are included, albeit from different sides, into the System. And the System does not forgive attempts on its own or on things that are significant to it, such as the Crimean bridge. Ukrainian special services are not fools. They know what can be destroyed relatively safely for themselves, so that the Russian people will be hurt, and what cannot be done under fear of an imminent Russian retaliatory strike. Budanov, “going too far” with the terrorist attack on the bridge, will not let you lie.

The main world event of the week was the NATO summit. Best of all, its outcome was illustrated by a photograph that has spread all over the media – a laughing and hugging crowd of Western leaders in good and expensive suits, and Zelensky, alone, forgotten by cheerful people, in tattered green clothes, standing a little further away. This photo with the sad face of the President of Ukraine has become an occasion for sarcasm and numerous comments. The most accurate and philosophical, for my taste, turned out to be this: “He just heard the voices of Hussein, Bin Laden and Gaddafi, whom the Americans also supported at first.”

And deliveries of Western cluster munitions began to the front, since the West ran out of conventional shells, and the new ones have not yet learned how to produce on the required scale. Cluster munitions are banned worldwide. Only the United States, Ukraine and Russia did not join the ban convention. Putin said that the supply of cluster munitions from the United States to Ukraine should be treated as a crime, since the United States itself has always called so any case of their use. And he promised a mirror response if Ukraine starts using them: “I want to say that Russia has a sufficient stock of various kinds of cluster munitions, of various kinds.”

It is clear that without this it will not do. But this is sad – unexploded submunitions from cartridges pose a danger for a long time to come. Again our land will be mined.