The defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine is the catalyst of the collapse of the Empire, said historian and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky.
“Hot summer 2016 is the precursor to the second active phase of the final collapse of the “Moscow Empire”. The main catalyst for this process in the Russian Federation – a defeat Putin in Ukraine”, – he said.
According to the analyst, the associates of the Russian President is clear that he lost.
“You remember what happened in the spring and summer of 2014, what Napoleon’s plans: “Russia”, of 12 regions, corridors, and access to the sea… All of it collapsed because none of these crazy plans are not supported – neither Ukrainians, nor that the most painful for Moscow, the Russians in Ukraine. The majority of the Russian population remained loyal citizens of Ukraine, many Russians are fighting in the Ukrainian army in ATO”, – said the analyst.
Pionkowski stressed that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine also did not receive mass support, and the influx of volunteers was very limited.
“Such failures usually lead to the fall of the dictator. And we see that creeping Palace coup is already underway more than a year: it is a challenge to law enforcers to Putin on Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov in the course of the investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov; it is a war head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov with the head of RF Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin around the protection of a criminal business,” he continued.
According to the historian, similar events occurred in the winter of 1952-1953 years in the last months of the life of Joseph Stalin, when there was a power struggle between all the security forces, who have realized that the dictator was weakened and dying.
“Our current dictator dies, not physically – he’s swimming, hockey at night, plays with the toadies. But politically he’s already dead. And he will not be able to tighten the same a counter coup, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. His “aunts” is not enough. Erdogan is ideologically motivated supporters. Half the population of Turkey wants to be a modern European country, and half – medieval Caliphate with Sharia law. As for Putin, no one will go outside with bare hands on the tanks. In early August of ‘ 91 for Yeltsin, which saw then leader of the anti-Communist revolution. I assure you,” he concluded.
