The Navalny bet was a mistake: the revolution in the Russian Federation can make national movements - Leshchuk (video)
The figure of the oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who died mysteriously in the colony, was more designed for the Western audience than the local Russian public. That is why, after his death, the main reaction went from Europe and the United States, and in Russia it did not lead to global social shifts. This opinion was expressed in an interview with focus by political scientist Petro Leshchuk.
The expert suspects that all Western politicians, who made a condemnation of Putin's regime in relation to Navalny, were not so much concerned with the oppositionist, but they were indignant due to the loss of the political figure of Alexei, who, in their opinion, could sooner or later climb into the Russian authorities. This gave hope that Navalny would declare a kind of "restructuring" and with the renewed Russia can be traded again.
"Western politicians lived with the hope that once Navalny would become such another Yeltsin and everything will be as before," Leshchuk notes. "And now they have received a clear signal from Putin that power in the Russian Federation is fully planted and managing the country will only be managing the country and only from He will have to deal with. " Therefore, according to the political scientist, it is not necessary to count on some "restructuring" in Russia.
The murder or bringing to the death of Navalny a month before Putin's re -election clearly demonstrates that he feels very confident, despite the record sanctions or pressure of the event. "All today's opposition projects are purely emigrant and have no significant influence on the Russian society," Leshchuk emphasizes. " According to the expert, it is the national movements in the Russian Federation that is most afraid of power, as it was in Bashkortostan.
There we had to strictly suppress the protesters. But repression does not always work and do not always have an impact, he notes. Petro Leshchuk believes that the West mistakenly expected that it is not necessary to rush to help Ukraine with weapons, because major sacrifices on the front by the Russians will lead to a revolution within Russia. But the Ukrainians themselves in this opportunity, of course, did not believe or believe, because they know the slave Russian mentality.
"Simply, for example, in the United States could not imagine that in the case when the President draws the country into an unfair war with Mexico, which leads to 300 thousand losses he can remain in his position, and his regime is only intensified," the political scientist says. would simply shoot the American generals themselves or to break the society itself.
" And, of course, they were afraid that Putin could use nuclear weapons if the event began to actively provide military assistance to Ukraine. The calculation was that due to the slow destruction of the armies of the Russian Federation, some positive changes would occur in society, and it turned out that this only strengthened Putin's regime. Focus earlier wrote about the most resonant proposals for mobilization in two years of a full -scale war with the Russian Federation.