Russia’s upper class is not pleased with Vladimir Putin.
Although these powerful elite still remain behind the invasion of Ukraine, they claim military leaders “should face the firing squad.” Previously, criticizing the military could have meant a long jail sentence. But now, with the poorly-considered mobilization of “hundreds of thousands of reservists,” the aristocrats are publicly doubting the attack on their neighbor.
Retired General Andrei Karapolov appeared on a strong Russian nationalist’s show, Vladimir Solovyov, and said:
‘The people know. Our people are not stupid. And they see that we do not want to tell them even part of the truth. That can lead to a loss of credibility.’
He continued:
‘There won’t be any good news (from the front) in the near future.’
Even as Putin directed documented war crimes, his words rang hollow:
‘Victory will be ours.’
The Russian leader admitted he had made “errors” when he called up hundreds of thousands of ill-equipped Russian reservists with no military experience and sent them to the front lines.
Putin has had no political opposition since he jailed Alex Navalny. But one of the imprisoned man’s friends, Leonid Volkov, intends to return his YouTube activist program off-shore. The host laid the facts bare:
‘The struggle can take different forms, with different levels of risk — we can put out information, offer legal aid, do voluntary work or sabotage the work of military commissariats, some of which burn very well.’
Maybe this horrific war will soon end.
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