Russia*** 2024 will be held from March 15 to 17 throughout Russia. Putin has already publicly stated that he wants to participate in 2024
* Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said: "As long as Putin appears on the election list, no one else has a chance". Opinion polls conducted in Russia also seem to support his claim, and at present, about 80 percent of Russian citizens support Putin's continuation as the next Russian leader.
Putin has been in power in Russia for more than 20 years, although he once boasted about Haikou, saying that he would give him 20 years and give a strong Russia to the entire people, it turns out that what he said about a strong Russia is actually a joke. Today, an unprecedentedly isolated, weakened Russia sits there.
Let's first review what Putin has achieved in the past 20 years.
1. Won the second Chechen war, stabilized the Caucasus, and avoided the country's head. This was the beginning of Putin's personal prestige and the basis of his rule.
2. Crack down on oligarchs in all walks of life who emerged after Russia's privatization, especially in the financial, oil and gas, and media sectors. The oil and gas companies will be re-state-owned, and in particular, the dominance of the news will be taken back from control.
3. Stabilized prices and allowed the Russian economy to recover from Yeltsin's "shock **". It is very important that the people's income and living standards have improved to a certain extent.
4. In August 2008, the war with Georgia was won with a blitzkrieg, forcing the territory of Georgia to cede part of its territory.
5. Withstood the pressure of Western countries, supported Syria to win the civil war, and maintained the current Syrian regime, thus also protecting Russia's strategic interests in Syria.
6. Taking advantage of the internal contradictions of the Ukrainians, they seized the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine, which made Russia cheer and nationalist sentiment soared. This "great achievement" brought Putin's prestige to its peak.
Putin has achieved all of this, but he has also made two fatal mistakes.
1. Putin has not made any achievements in the economy, and he still eats the old capital of the Soviet Union, and relies on selling oil and gas to support the economic operation of the whole country. Oil and gas *** people's lives are better, energy ** once **, the economic income of the whole country has dropped sharply, and the people have begun to live a hard life again.
Putin has been in power for more than 20 years, and Russia's scientific and technological level has not improved, and scientific and technological products rely heavily on imports.
2. A protracted war was waged against Ukraine. In this war, Russia fought so hard and suffered so badly, not only exposing Russia's true strength from the world's second military power, but also being widely surrounded and sanctioned by Western countries.
Because of this war, Putin was found guilty of war crimes by the International Criminal Court and needs to be punished by law, and now even Putin himself needs to send fighter jets to escort the whole process when he visits abroad, and the countries that Putin can visit abroad are very limited.
Then the problem is, the Russian people's choice of Putin to continue to be the first will mean that Russia will continue to be internationally isolated, Russia's economic situation is unlikely to improve, and the living standards of the people cannot be expected to improve. So why do most Russians continue to vote for Putin?
This is because there are no political figures in the domestic political arena who can pose a threat to Putin. The only person who has the ability to challenge him is Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner, but unfortunately this person lost his life by plotting.
* Among the candidates, a female candidate named Catherine appeared. She put forward her own policy propositions. She promised that if elected, she would first stop the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, withdraw troops from the four eastern regions of Ukraine, and also return Crimea to Ukraine. How could she possibly have the support of the Russian people for proposing such a policy?
As a political strongman, Putin has no rivals at home, which is the only reason why the Russian people continue to choose him.