Philosopher Aleksander Dugin allegedly attacked President Putin in a post that was later deleted, using very harsh sentences after the retreat from Kherson. While Solovyov, “megaphone” of propaganda, calls for “a bigger army” and “an iron fist” to solve the “serious problems” of the campaign in Ukraine
In an autocracy “we give the sovereign absolute fullness of power to save us all”, therefore “full powers in case of success, but also full liability in the event of bankruptcy».
The philosopher would have written it on Telegram Alexander Dugin in what – as reported by the Mirrora British tabloid – it was a tough attack on Vladimir Putin after the retreat to Kherson.
According to the British newspaper, the post – from two days ago – was removed “shortly after it was put online”.
In the post, Dugin – who lost his daughter in a sensational attack organized, according to the New York Times, by elements of Ukrainian intelligence – allegedly specified that he had “nothing against Surovikin”, the head of military operations in Ukraine .
‘The blow,’ he would have written, ‘is not aimed at him. It’s a blow to you-you-know-who».
In his post, Dugin allegedly referred to a story quoted in James Frazer’s book “The Golden Bough”, in which a ruler is killed and gutted because he failed to bring the rain backending a long drought.
“If the sovereign surrounds himself with mer…, or if he spits on social justice, this is not pleasant. but it is acceptable if the ruler saves us. If not – the fate of the “king of the rains” ».
«What happened is not simply a betrayal: it is a step towards ArmageddonHe would write. “The conditions of the West, this satanic civilization, will never be acceptable to Moscow. This means that our arsenal of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons remains at our disposal. This is the final point ».
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“We have already made many corrections and changes to the special military operation: it didn’t work. The last resort is ideology. The real one, not the one that the presidential administration, scared to death by what is happening, is trying to sell us. Just go around it: you need the Russian Idea. Just this. It is stupid to think of the possibility of the destruction of all humanity just for fear of the Russian Idea, of our ideology. There is no other way: the Russian authorities cannot withdraw from anything else, the limit has now been reached. The war must become a real and full war of the people. But for this to happen, the state must once again belong to the people – Russian, that is. And not as it is today ».
Solovyov’s bad mood
The discontent of Putin’s loyalists in the face of the retreat from Kherson is not only visible through Dugin’s mysterious post. Also Vladimir Solovyovone of the main Russian propaganda megaphones, said on TV that “Russia needs a larger army capable of supporting an all-out war in Europe.”
Not only that: he asks that the “serious problems” arising in the military operation, “now stalled”, be “resolved with an iron fist”, and that the original objectives must remain the same.
Vladimir Solovyov is not happy
He says Russia requires a larger army, “capable of waging full-scale war in Europe”
He calls for the “severe problems” which have arisen in Russia’s “stalling” campaign to be solved with an “iron fist”, but insists the original objectives remain pic.twitter.com/lGH75uZtE5
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The risk for Putin
The situation, for Putin, now presents more than one criticality, as reported by Steve Rosenberg, the BBC correspondent from Moscow.
Which – in its press review of 10 November – already reported the editorial of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta which took off from what happened in Kherson, but then broadened the discussion. The title of the editorial is: “On the infallibility of those in power.” «Our system is based on the search for a great leader. He is granted the right to decide political and economic priorities. His decisions are not discussed. But this means that he cannot make mistakes, because there is no mechanism to correct them. It is as if a leader who admits he has made mistakes compromises his status, and makes the people around him doubt his qualities. But if this is the perception of power, it is very difficult to organize a normal policy, in which one of the main tasks would be to correct mistakes in time. Politics, in an environment like the present one, inevitably leads to propaganda narratives which, in turn, are not corrected ».
In an article on the BBC – entitled “Putin cannot escape the consequences of the Russian withdrawal in Ukraine” – Rosenberg then explains the enormous problem that Putin now faces.
The Russian president tried in every possible way to distance himself from the decision to withdraw from Kherson: not surprisingly, the announcement arrived on TV, but it was General Surovikin – commander of the forces in the field – who “advised” the Defense Minister Shoigu to withdraw from the city; at that point, Shoigu “accepted” the suggestion and gave the order to the troops. “It was the Defense Minister who made the decision, I have nothing to say on this point,” said Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.
“The Kremlin tries to make the army appear responsible for what happened. But it was President Putin who ordered the invasion of Ukraine. What he calls a “special military operation” was his idea. And distancing oneself from any aspect of this operation will not be easy, ”Rosenberg writes. “There is a danger for Putin in this situation: a danger that existed before the retreat from Kherson. The events of the last 9 months risk changing the way Putin is seen at home: not so much by the public, but – and this is crucial – by the Russian elite, by the people around him, by the people in power. For years they have seen Putin as an infallible strategist, as someone who always stands out as a winner. They considered him the cornerstone of the system they are a part of, and which was built around him. But the victories are scarce, from February 24 to today. The invasion did not go according to plan. Not only did it bring death and destruction to Ukraine, it also caused significant losses in the Russian military. Putin promised that only professional soldiers would shoulder the burden of fighting: and then he mobilized hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens to take part in the war. The economic costs were also considerable. The Kremlin has always portrayed Putin as “mister stability” for Russia. But this narrative has become much more complicated now ».
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