17.03.2022, Moscow.
Ultimately compelling reasons were necessary for such a cautious politician as President of Russia Vladimir Putin to go as far as the military special operation in Ukraine, said philosopher, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement on the Right to Know program on the TVC channel on March 12.
“This is Putin, you have known him for over twenty years. You should have an idea that he is not Tamerlane, not Genghis Khan,” Kurginyan said. “This is Putin, who has highest regard for the Western civilization, and who always wanted to reach a peaceful resolution, and who, as anyone with his kind of a biography, is extremely cautious. Can anyone imagine that all this began without any really major motives? Really serious ones?”
Putin was the one, the political scientist stressed, who inhibited the start of the military clash in Ukraine as long as he could, and since 2015 he demanded that the Minsk agreements should be fulfilled, in a situation when “Putin could easily go and seize Kiev.”
Kurginyan expressed confidence that Putin’s decision to start the special operation in Ukraine was due to extraordinary circumstances. “Something really happened,” the situation was “desperate,” the political scientist believes.
“Putin! Not Joseph Stalin, not somebody else, not someone who likes to resolve problems smashing with a sword, not Alexander the Great. But Putin, who disentangles any knots endlessly, and who even sort of enjoys this, and who never cuts anything. This means something happened,” Kurginyan said.
Kurginyan stressed that if the “nationalist boar” Poroshenko had at least some idea that his actions had to keep within certain limits, the “clown Zelensky,” in contrast, goes out of any limits. Under Zelensky, Ukraine “began to militarize absolutely,”
“I told you that the clown will do what no Poroshenko would do. That the clown would be a crazy idiot who would unleash all this. And he was unleashing it,” Kurginyan said. “This is a bloody clown, and what has been happening in Ukraine in the last six months is something extraordinary. And in the recent weeks. And why should we rule out the nuclear weapons problem? As well as other problems, like, for example, a strike on Donetsk with cruise missiles, say around five hundred missiles?”
The guests of the show discussed the Ukrainian public’s reaction to the military special operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. In some places people welcome the Russian army, in some places they do not. According to Kurginyan, over the past eight years the Ukrainian society underwent a real nazification, and before that the Ukrainian authorities preferred to cut all the connections with their Russian and Soviet past.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
