05.06.2024, Aleksandrovskoye.
The Russian army was reformed for local conflicts after the elite adopted a concept that any major war could only be nuclear, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on May 3 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
According to the philosopher, the Soviet Union was destroyed, among other things, according to a thesis that no one would ever attack us and that we would live in perfect peace, consequently with a downsized army and dissolving the Warsaw Pact. The political scientist reminded the words of a Russian politician of that period who said “even if we are attacked, it will be with nuclear missiles,” so this was supposed to be the only kind of a threat we had to defend against.
“We have our nuclear submarines, out triad, our nuclear heritage of the Soviet Union, and if they dare to attack us, which is almost impossible, we will give a nuclear response. But since our response can only be nuclear, we do not need a land army to combat them,” Kurginyan explained our elite’s concept.
However, the Russian authorities still needed the land forces for conflicts like the one in Chechnya or later in Syria, and this is the kind of tasks the military reformers wanted to be able to resolve. Furthermore, a thoughtless mimicry of our former enemy’s army structure prevailed.
“Why was the Soviet army bad? Because it had divisions, and divisions were something stupid. Why were they stupid? Because our new partner and friend, into which we are about to integrate, has brigades. They made brigades, and now they are making divisions again,” the leader of Essence of Time explained.
The philosopher also referred to an opinion of one of the top officials from the General Staff Academy who was absolutely positive that the Academy was not necessary, and that the Russian officers should receive training in the US military academy at West Point.
“That was a concept. And this is not fiction, this is what really took place in that period, because we perceived ourselves as a Brazil, as a satellite power. ‘Cut your coat according to your cloth.’ And any war could only be nuclear,” Kurginyan said.
According to the political scientist, this belief also had another side: our nuclear potential was believed to be something we must not give up in any event. The philosopher notes that this opinion was shared by both the relatively patriotic part of our elite and the clearly pro-Western one.
“I know people who have dramatically changed their position, and now they are so much patriotic and anti-Western that you would never expect because they used to be ecstatically pro-Western, but as soon as our thermonuclear weapons were questioned they said, ‘In no way will we ever give up our thermonuclear weapons!’ I remember these words, I heard them since 1991-1992 from such pro-Western people,” Kurginyan said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
