15.03.2023, Aleksandrovskoye, Russia
There is no unity in the Russian elite regarding the SMO, said philosopher, political analyst, and the leader of the Essence of Time movement, Sergey Kurginyan in an interview with Vyacheslav Manucharov on the YouTube channel of Manuchi Empathy program, published on March 13.
When asked if there is unanimity within the Russian elite regarding the special military operation, the political scientist confidently replied: “No, of course not.”
He explained that for the last thirty years, both in the Yeltsin era and especially in the Putin era, it was said that Russia should enter the West and become part of it.
“And en masse this elite was moving there. And it was said that this was a good thing, that not only money but also basic means should be gained there, and that children, when they graduate from Western universities and get hold of – husbands with Western wives, and wives with Western husbands – this is fine, that this symbiosis is what is needed,” Kurginyan described this process.
The analyst reminded that the Russian elite was given a “Go!“. “It was a whole era of entering,” Kurginyan stressed. And it happened, according to him, long before the warning “you’ll be swallowing dust“.
According to Kurginyan, Putin admitted that he had long been trying to get Russia to become part of the Western world and even join NATO. Only later he became convinced “that nobody wants this, and nobody will ever allow this“. However, the beginning of the Putin era was about putting everything in order and entering the West, the political scientist noted.
The philosopher returned to the question of the unity of the pro-Western elite with regard to the SMO and confrontation with the West. “What should it [the elite] do now? Some take money out to Russia, some transfer money in another direction, and some are in a state of strategic daze, and they start saying, ‘There will be a backdoor deal, and they will change their minds, and everything will be ok,’” he noted.
In this context, Kurginyan notes the piquancy of Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky’s statement that Russia and the United States won the Cold War together.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
