If anyone is still unclear in which direction the situation is developing in Russia, report: the country is preparing for military conflict. For any dictatorship or totalitarian regimes always end in war.
Signs of the militarization of Russia — weight. Bloated military and defense budget, the accelerated rearmament of the army, almost monthly military exercises and testing new models of lethal equipment. Active restoration of bomb shelters, buying gas masks and protection kits to civilians, and large-scale mobilization events across the country. The intensification of military activity in the middle East, in the Black and Mediterranean seas (Navy), plans for the restoration and consolidation of overseas military bases. The growth of militant propaganda, spying and the search for internal enemies, which is typical for pre-war situation. The adoption of laws on the use of military force outside the country with the simultaneous closure of information about combat losses. All this country has passed in the 30s of the last century. The results are also known.
Absolutely clear: the Russian government a major war with NATO is unwilling and even afraid, after all, allied with Russia and is not expected. There is in the world and still the ideological differences typical of the “camp confrontation” of the two systems (if not to take into account the roll of the country into a dictatorship instead of democracy). But the “good” war outside the country is perhaps exactly what is needed to the regime for the important things — further retention of power. After all, the horror of our lives must be assigned to the specific culprits, and certainly not in the Kremlin. For example, today’s crisis in Russia is a direct result of the machinations of Obama and taken his orders to international sanctions and subversive activities of the “fifth column” among the “agents of state Department”. Plus arranged American President of the Ukrainian “junta” (as the punishment of the proud uplifting of Russia from the knees), the treacherous Georgians, the poles, and also banned the ISIL terrorists, who have entrenched themselves around the perimeter around our country. While this “works”: the people together to rally around the government, and “five minutes of hatred” effectively divert the attention of the millions of destitute from the problems of their survival.
But as evidenced by sociology, the “Patriotic ardor” is gradually declining: Syria is becoming less interesting and the friendly reproach of the once brotherly Ukraine on all screens “zomboyaschika” gradually fills the mouth. To maintain the necessary tension in the society, it is necessary to increase the degree of confrontation with the “enemy” (as the addict to maintain high all the time to increase the dose). That is why today Russia is constantly and actively “bugging” US, trying to get them to response, able to evoke strong emotions in people. Type “our beat!”
You are us — obstruction in the UN, we will give you s-300 for Syria. You are to us sanctions, and we — the Navy ships in the Mediterranean sea. You tell us — tough statements Hillary Clinton and we the most beloved way to dine out with her “enemies” in the Kremlin, where at the same table with the President of the Russian Federation sitting as much as two Americans involved in the presidential campaign against unloved by our people Hilary. Continued, as they say, ensues.
Any other “enemy” except in America, will not be able to cause the storm of resentment and “Patriotic feelings” of millions of Russians, accustomed to the fact that all the bad things in Russia happen because of the us authorities. After all, anti-American propaganda gets into their soul directly from the screens of “zombie TV”, bypassing the conscious mind: it is too big, the inertia of thinking of the Cold war and the nuclear confrontation of the twentieth century, too much in people’s subconscious resentment for the lost sovereign Majesty, when the two superpowers deciding the fate of the world. And the inferiority complex that our people are experiencing in connection with the collapse of the Soviet Union, just a fertile ground for the manipulation of “sovereign” syndrome. Let’s remember recent history: did the defeat of Germany in the 1st World war, the German people perceived as the humiliation of the Imperial dignity, did not become reactive thrust for the ascent of Hitler to the political Olympus?
That’s why a local war or further the growing confrontation with the United States is the most probable and logical continuation of the policy of the current regime of Russia. Just he lacks any other effective long-term ways to maintain their rankings, to obtain “popular support” and to retain power. Otherwise, you will have to explain to the citizens of Russia who is the real perpetrators of their hard life, more like a struggle for survival. It is an ignoble and unsafe event. And the fog of war, and it is war…
Of course, I really hope no one in the Kremlin the great war seriously does not want. But the problem is that in the history of mankind it always began unexpectedly, as a continuation of local military conflicts. By the time the Nations through propaganda have always been convinced of its justice, “a lightning and victorious.” Unfortunately, the results of the fights and battles were always a lot worse than the expectations. Because Yes, the spark will kindle a flame, and “with a blue brook river begins”, isn’t it?
Gennady Gudkov
