by Marco Imarisio
Among the martial speeches there are also insights into the negotiations. “If the West understands that it is impossible to fight, we could sit down at the table”
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MOSCOW Let’s start with TV, which sometimes helps to understand. During his evening monologue, the famous conductor Vladimir Solovyov, as he glorified the bombing of Kyiv and, as always, recalled that “Russia is the only country in the world capable of reducing its enemies to radioactive ash,” left one Sentence sibyllines fall and they turn to look at the camera. “This breakthrough in the way we conduct Special Military Operation will give us more power when we need it.” His guests, hoping for the newfound power “of the only country that has reduced its enemies to rubble and can lay ashes,” responded with a distracted nod.
It was just a few words, for heaven’s sake. But in this wave of newfound pride that shrouds every public statement, the statements are undoubtedly joyous responses to the “anti-Nazi regime in Kyiv” reaction, but with a different perspective than the now-usual victory on the field. Consider Sergey Lipovoy, president of the Officers of Russia organization, which has hundreds of thousands of members: “As the old saying goes, Russians put the bridle on slowly to run faster. Destroying key targets of military and civilian infrastructure will change the way the protectors of the Kiev regime will speak to us in due course.”
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It’s a continuous allusion, a hint of something that might happen but mustn’t be mentioned just yet. Last May, Franz Klintsevich, a former general and senator, member of the United Russia High Council and chairman of the Afghanistan War Veterans Association, was fined on talk shows for claiming live that the Ukrainian army was strong and well-prepared. Yesterday he celebrated the turning point and also linked it to future events. «In Kyiv they only understand strength. The change of approach is a mandatory choice to have more weight when the guns are silent ».
The ultra-nationalists who are drawing the line, from Dmitry Medvedev to Ramzan Kadyrov, to name just the most prominent, make no mention of them. Full steam ahead against the entire western world. The official line remains this. But in Moscow political circles, moving in concentric circles around the Kremlin in hopes of interpreting his moves, there is a strong belief that Vladimir Putin is instead looking for a way out, despite moves that are difficult to explain , except with a desire to please the party of all-out war that tightly presses him. Read to believe analyst Eugeniy Yashuk’s analysis, published on the Regnum website, one of the cornerstones of Russian patriotism, which, albeit in a belligerent turmoil, has the courage to call a spade a spade. «The scale of the beatings inflicted on the infrastructures of Kyiv on October 10 serves not only to return positive emotions among our people. Russia urgently needs a ceasefire now. On the one hand the West will speak of a humanitarian catastrophe, on the other hand it will initially advocate freezing the conflict. A real threat, including a nuclear one, is required for the “peace deal” lobby to win. After consideration, the US will be ready for a peaceful reconstitution without putting its strategic forces on alert ». They are only hints, the final light of which is still difficult to bear. Because they always involve the denial of any role for those who suffer the most, a vassal state that is not worth reducing to a mere geographical entity.
Konstantin Blokhin of the National Security Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, not far from the Kremlin and not only because of its geographical location, defines Kyiv as a “ukro-fascist regime”, according to a definition dear to the Russian Academy’s ideologist right-wing extremist Aleksandr Dugin. “Look what happens. In the American elite, the relationship to Zelenskyy and his apparatuses is at odds. Erdogan suggested discussing his future without Kiev’s participation. To exacerbate these divisions, the West must be deprived of certainty that victory over Russia can be achieved. After that, it will be possible to deal with the right person on an equal footing.” The propaganda machine and some parts of the Russian nomenklatura prepare the ground. Sooner or later we have to stop. And open a real negotiation. For now, he hopes to do so without Ukraine. But the stone certainties seem to be a memory now.
October 12, 2022 (Change October 12, 2022 | 08:13)
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