"Give me 20 years, and I will give you a strong Russia!”
Twenty-two years ago, Mr. Putin stood in the Kremlin Square in the cold night breeze and shouted this promise to Russian nationals who had come to support him.
At this moment, Russia 2024** is coming again, and people have given different evaluations of Putin, a tough guy, who likes him to call him "rebuild a new country", and "oppose him and think that he has changed what he should be". ”
In short, now that Russia is coming, the "anti-Prussian forces" are starting to move again, what do they want to do?
Will the Russians abandon Putin?
The eve of Russia's **.
When the time enters the second half of the year, many international observers' eyes are all focused on Russia's domestic **, the reason is that Russia will be held next year**, who can lead Russia to the next 6 or even 12 years, which has become a topic of great concern to many people.
Russia occupies an important position on the international map of the world, and Russia's every move has a decisive impact on the whole world.
Earlier this month, on December 7, the Federation Council of Russia adopted a resolution announcing that the elections for the next ** term in Russia will be held on March 17, 2024.
Sure enough, the next day, Putin directly said at an important event in the Kremlin: "I will also participate in the new ** election." ”
As soon as the news came out, it quickly detonated all major news newspapers and periodicals around the world, and people were looking forward to Putin's speech and speech.
In fact, Putin has led Russia for 24 years, since he took over the baton from Boris Yeltsin in 1999.
As the most vast country on the planet, Putin has led it through 24 years of ups and downs, from the Chechen War, the Georgian War, to today's Russia-Ukraine conflict, Putin has shown his iron fist.
It is precisely for this reason that Putin said in his speech announcing his participation in the new ** election: "We will devote ourselves to defending Russia's interests, promoting the country's development in the political, economic and military fields, and playing a more active role in international affairs."
Obviously, Putin's latest speech provides two very special messages for people, one of which is that he still has the determination and courage to lead Russia on.
The second is that Russia's next diplomatic move is to break the deadlock and embrace international affairs at a deeper level.
One was to appease the Russian people, and the other was to speak to the whole world.
It can only be said that Putin's political and diplomatic methods have reached the peak level.
So will the reactionaries in Russia really have no voice at all?
Anti-Putin forces in the dark.
There is a consensus among the Russian people today that Putin is "anti-oligarchic".
The so-called "anti-oligarchs" are actually around 2000, when Putin won the war in Chechnya, he began to free up his hands to fight the financial oligarchs in Russia, according to Putin's words, "They are hyenas, they are moths, they hollowed out the country." ”
Putin sent seven of Russia's major oligarchs to prison or expelled from Russia.
Western countries have used this as an excuse to start a large-scale criticism of Putin, believing that he is challenging the international order.
Under the circumstances, if Putin did not crack down on the oligarchs and did not return the state-owned assets, then Russia would face the possibility of dismemberment again, and this was not an exaggeration.
Of course, in addition to those oligarchs who either bow their heads or leave the West, there is also a very hard-line opposition that has been constantly provoking Putin's personal prestige and legitimacy in power.
This person is the famous Russian entrepreneur Alexei Narvany.
For more than 20 years, he has been considered the most hard-liner against Putin in Russia.
He dared to name and use some trumped-up scandals to slander Putin on Western platforms, and even tried to organize ** to disrupt domestic order many times.
Putin has been constantly tightening the control of state-owned capital and resolutely expelling Russian financial oligarchs from political affairs.
With the gradual strengthening of Russia's control over enterprises, what is divided is the cake of those opposition forces hidden in the dark.
Narvani has always hoped that Putin will restore Russia to the political and economic ecology it was before 2000, but Putin, who has spent a lot of effort to successfully change the minds of the Russian people, will never see these people mess with Russia again.
In the past 20 years, Putin has sent Navalny and other opposition opponents to prison many times, but even so, the iron-hearted Narvani is still constantly creating trouble for Putin.
In addition, there is a remnant of the "Imperial Russian faction" in Russia, although their number is small, but they still have residual influence, and their idea is that Russia should return to the glory of Tsarist Russia, kick Europe, and go south to Southeast Asia.
However, it is a pity that the international pattern has been repeatedly reshuffled in the past 100 years, and the so-called "glory of Tsarist Russia" can only remain in the dust of Russian history.
In addition to the opposition of these high-level figures, there are actually many ordinary people who have always been a headache for Putin, and they still regard themselves as European aristocrats, and in their view, Putin's policy program that is constantly moving closer to Asia today is essentially a kind of "political free fall." ”
We have seen on the news that many Russian nationals are very unfriendly to the yellow race in Southeast Asian countries, in fact, this is a kind of mentality they reflect.
In addition, as Russia's domestic economy has begun to slump in recent years, it is inevitable that some people will start to oppose him, and in their opinion, if they can change from Putin to someone else's government, then their basic livelihood may be a little better, at least not living in a wartime economy like now.
Many anti-Putin political groups have also begun to create **, they hold demonstrations, conduct political rallies, and use all kinds of social ** in order to attract more people to join the camp against Putin.
So the question is, will what they do really shake the foundations of Putin's rule?
The answer, of course, is no.
Don't look at the fact that Russia has always been targeted by the West, but the West also understands one thing, that is, no matter how powerful Putin is, at least he can still do things according to the laws of international affairs.
Not to mention, in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, when the war is unfavorable, many Russian troops and radicals within the Russian army hope to use special military means.
But Putin has always suppressed this thought.
This also means that if Russia is replaced by a radical politician, then its relations with the West or Asian countries are likely to go to the other extreme.
Whether a country has foreign exchanges or handles internal affairs, it has never only won or lost, but tried to maximize its interests.
So on the whole, Putin will not be abandoned at present, at least in the future, Russia will not be able to do without Putin, a politician who can balance the forces of all parties.