“Putin went to war against a country that lost eight million people in World War Two,” Dmitry Muratov told David Remnick. “I can only assume that, for him, the Second World War has not ended, and that he, personally, wants to win it.”
The people do not really support war, especially the war with Ukraine. More than a third are categorically against the military action. There are no rallies in support of the war. Already, a million people have signed a “No to War” petition on the Change.org platform. Russian intellectuals have also had their say: writers, screenwriters, journalists, scientists. Nearly thirty still-existing independent publications simultaneously issued a statement about the impossibility of war.
Putin distrusts the West. He is sincerely flummoxed by talk about “Western values.” He buys wholesale former Chancellors, Prime Ministers, and ministers from Europe, putting them on the boards of state-owned or close-to-the-state Russian companies. They have a price, but they don’t have values: I’d say that this is what he thinks.
Is it possible to describe Putin’s psychology? In the long run, what was the point of his sending troops into Ukraine? After he takes Kyiv, after arrestingThat’s a difficult question. I think the plan is to divide Ukraine. With the Western part of the country, whose center is Lviv, the thinking is, Let them live as they want. Central Ukraine, with the center in Kyiv, will have the government that Putin requires, one that is oriented toward Moscow and not the West.
I don’t know on what information Putin made this decision to invade. Of course, it’s connected to his ultimatum to the U.S., about the non-expansion ofhas never attacked Russia. The version about the Ukrainian fascists seizing power—this is also not clear. People are whispering: Isn’t Zelensky Jewish? Putin went to war against a country that lost eight million people in World War Two. I can only assume that, for him, the Second World War has not ended, and that he, personally, wants to win it.
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