Expert: If NATO Decided To Capture Moscow, They Would Have Taken It Without Losses
- 15.03.2024, 21:51
Today Russia can be taken with bare hands.
Political strategist, publicist and blogger Mikhail Sheitelman said in an interview with UNIAN that the events taking place in Russia recently have made Putin look like a complete loser.
—A new raid by Russian volunteers is the hottest news for the rest of the week. It looks like they got serious. Not like the last time they came in and out. This time with tanks and artillery, there are statements that they want to stay there longer and go as far as possible. How do you rate this raid?
—I remember their second approach, when they also fussed there for quite a long time, and the Russians tried to knock them out for quite a long time. Putin also boasted about his exploits; the Great Patriotic War against the Russian Volunteer Corps was then going on in the Belgorod region.
Now, at least, we know exactly what goals the volunteers are pursuing, they directly and very openly named them: participation in elections. Therefore, I think that they must hold out at least until Sunday in order to completely ruin the elections for Putin, to show that he does not rule this country.
—Why did the Kremlin put water in its mouth? Does this come as expected for you or not? There are reports that even two regions have already been prohibited from publishing any information, much less accompanying it with photos or videos related to the events in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
—The Kremlin hasn’t quite gotten its fill of water. There were two messages. First: that in fact everyone is lying, and there was no breach of the border. This was reported by the Russian FSB. And the second: that in the process of eliminating the breakthrough, the FSB destroyed 100 pieces of equipment, so many soldiers, and so on. Self-contradictory messages to say the least.
They need to sit quieter and lower than the grass. What should they say? That “we are heroically repelling the attack”? Whom? What kind of volunteers? Who are they? What can the Kremlin even say about this? They have a real problem. They dreamed of holding elections so that everything would be quiet. This was their main dream. The quieter they are, the better in these elections. So that no one will even notice that there are elections. This is their main task. And now suddenly everyone is like, “What’s going on here?”
The Ukrainian Armed Forces woke up half of Russia. Eight or ten regions were bombed by drones in one night alone. Nobody knows anything for sure. And this is happening separately from the offensive of Russian volunteers in two regions. Plus there is still an incomprehensible story with the plane. What is this? Coincidentally, on exactly this day, an Il-76 military plane caught fire, which was also flying to the airfield where the A-50, some instructors, and so on? Did it catch fire by itself? I also think that these are ours. Unlikely a drone. I think someone planted a bomb there. It's hard to believe that it turned out so beautifully by accident.
Putin was presented as a complete loser
—You listed it all in such a way that it would be enough for Putin to have a heart attack.
— Putin personally — okay. What’s more important here is what his team thinks now, what his elite thinks. The same governors. They are important people. Should be. Where should they go now? What should they tell their population? How should they answer for all this and to whom?
In this situation, Putin was presented as a complete loser in front of his entourage. Let’s look at the political task of the war. The electorate is not important to us, we are not interested in what 140 million people think, what is important to us is what 1-2 million of the real elite of Russia think.
“And, most likely, the fighters of these battalions do not need to achieve the goal that they voice — advancing on Moscow. It seems to me that a revolution in the Kremlin can happen much faster — if volunteers move deeper and deeper within a week or two. And they can advance. Look how the Russian army runs. After all, practically no one resists. Entire checkpoints there fled. Question: why is everything left to chance?
“And the answer to this question is the simplest: they simply have no one.” The entire Russian army is in Ukraine. Everything else is just some kids who don’t understand how to fight. Meanwhile, professional soldiers came against them. Of course they will run away.
There is no army inside the country. It is a fact. Today Russia can be taken with bare hands. If NATO had decided to capture Moscow or St. Petersburg, they would have taken it without losses, coming from Finland, Estonia, or Latvia.
But let's be realistic. There are too few of these guys to reach Moscow. If there were several thousand of them, they could have reached Moscow. I’m also not ready to say now that power in Russia will change tomorrow because of this. But this is not the end yet. Elections are on the 17th. What do we have in stock? Where is the intelligence department? Which bridge is it going to blow up on the 16th? We don't know. Somebody can, that's right. And you can still arrange a lot of things during this time.
I assumed that the command would organize some actions specifically for Putin’s elections. Now the effect is doubled. Each drone functions as both a military machine and a political program. Therefore, we will still see what Putin’s authority will be after this, how his entourage will look at him, how the governors will react.