The world understood Putin's words as a program of territorial expansion of the Russian Federation

Baku/11.06.22/Turan: On June 10, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said  that just like  during the reign of Peter I,  now Russia has to  return everything back and to strengthen.

According to Radio Liberty's Arkady Dubnov, Putin has made it clear that the 3.5-month-old war in Ukraine should be seen as only part of a long saga to reclaim territories previously controlled by the Russian state.

Igor Eidman: “The Russian madman not only retains power, but perceives his madness as a guide to action; trying to behave in the modern world as in the 18th century, killing tens of thousands of people for the sake of expanding his state. The patient does not understand that in the 21st century, in a post-industrial society, land has ceased to be the highest value, and wars for territories have lost their meaning, but have become extremely dangerous for all participants, because they can lead to a global nuclear catastrophe.

The main and most urgently dangerous global threat now is not even global warming, but the madmen (tsy) at the head of a nuclear country. It can only be neutralized by the most radical means.”

Putin's expansionist program has alarmed Europe. They write that it was after Putin's statement that Finnish President Sauli Niinistö urgently interrupted his visit to the Åland Islands, canceled dinner with the King of Sweden and flew to Helsinki.

In Russia, Putin's words sparked criticism on social media. Blogger Konstantin Kalachev ironically: “Would you be surprised if Vladimir Vladimirovich wants to return Alaska? I won't be surprised. Would you be surprised if the majority supported him? I won't be surprised."

On the day of Putin's statement, two leading sociological centers in Russia - the Public Opinion Foundation and the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) - confirmed the high level of public support for V. Putin's actions. According to the FOM, 81% of respondents showed approval of the president's activities. And VTsIOM has a 78.3% approval rate for the president's activities from May 30 to June 5, 2022.

Vasily Bukur, a resident of the Tula region of the Russian Federation, openly shares his opinion on the social network about Putin's intention to return the historical territory. "This is terrible. And what is a bargaining chip in such a situation? People of Ukraine? He does not feel sorry for either the inhabitants of Donbass or the Ukrainians themselves. . He destroys everyone, but for some reason the people in Russia do not see this and do not want to see it. I have relatives in Ukraine. I will never consider them fascists, enemies. They are the same people as everyone else. I pray to God that everything is fine with them. I don't trust the Russian media."

Philosophy professor Ivan Shatov from Moscow (who answered Turan's questions twice) explains Putin's program to seize the lands of his neighbors by saying that the vast undeveloped areas in Siberia and the Far East need to be developed, and this is an expensive program. “It’s easier to take away from the neighbors what is badly lying. And then distribute government orders to friends for the development of new territories, especially since everything will be destroyed during the capture process, there will be something to restore.

But it is clear that in the modern world it does not work like that - other countries will object. But you can simply ignore them, saying that international law is the rules established by the strong to oppress the weak. And this right of yours is not a decree for us - we are now strong ourselves, and we will establish our own rules.

It seems that this type of statehood is simple. In which expansion is such a modus vivendi, a way of being. And if an external limit is set for this expansion, then the state begins to devour itself, redistributing existing resources within the elite and giving birth to the offended. Which sooner or later will try to take revenge, provoking a civil war.

I. Shatov does not see any development in the Russian “racketeer state”. “What is surprising in the fact that there can be no development in such a state, and the increment of resources can occur only as a result of external expansion,” I. Shatov noted.

The author of the Kommersant.ru article, Dmitry Drize, analyzed Putin's second signal in the same speech: the Russian economy will be open, the country will not repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union - step on the same rake and build iron curtains.
“Here, too, certain questions arise, since we, perhaps, are not closed, but they are closing from us. Let the West regret it, but what should we do? This is a fundamentally new situation. The Iron Curtain is being built by itself, regardless of our desire,” D. Drize summed up.--0--