The news of the week in politicians' assessments
Last week, fortunately, we were told what happened at the end of the week before last. Lavrov said that “it’s hard to call it louder than a scrape,” and Volodin said that “June 23–24 went down in the history of our country as the days of unity and consolidation of society around our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin” and “if only at the head of state in There were people like Putin in 1917 and 1991, there would have been no revolution and the collapse of the USSR.”
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said on June 27 that “during the 15 months of the armed conflict, the Russian Forbes list has replenished with 22 more rich people. Now there are 110 oligarchs in the country, whose combined fortune has grown from $350 billion to $505 billion!” (This week, by the way, the sixth Russian oligarch left Russian citizenship, and at the beginning of 2022, almost half of Russian billionaires had the citizenship of other states.) Zyuganov also wrote that “the tax policy that ripped off the poor and gave benefits to the oligarchy continues,” that he insists «on the official consideration of the issue of tax policy in the State Duma, it is urgent to adopt a progressive scale of taxation» and «nationalize the mineral resource base.»
In Ukraine, meanwhile, they began literally pounding on the table with their fists (deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Igor Zhovkva, Zelensky’s chief diplomatic adviser distinguished himself), demanding that the procedure for admission to NATO be started. But NATO likes it when only the people of the «jungle» (Borrel's definition) die, and not the inhabitants of the «Garden of Eden», and they know how to count money. Look how much they swelled, but where is the result? In two years, all the reserves of the seven-year EU budget are gone. Zelensky also says that the result should be shown before the NATO summit on July 11.
There is a very high probability that the Ukrainian regime will go for the result at any cost. The Ukrainian media space is filled with memos and recommendations, official from the Ministry of Health, and amateur, on how to behave in a nuclear disaster. All the same Zelensky does not get tired of repeating that Russia will arrange a nuclear provocation. A special nuclear monitoring aircraft WC-135R Constant Phoenix of the US Air Force arrived in Europe to take atmospheric air samples and control radioactive emissions. It is easy to understand: until July 11, Kyiv will blow up (try to blow up) the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and declare Russia guilty.
By the way, a major provocation is also possible in the Sumy region, the population and enterprises of which are recommended to evacuate. There may be something like a production in Bucha. As an option: the Ukrainians will tell that fighters of the Wagner PMC came here from the territory of Belarus (they are right there now) and brutally killed, robbed and raped everyone (well, or in reverse order). Like, that's how it was planned in Moscow.
Of course, both are the result, but not at all the one that the West is waiting for. The Washington Post recently wrote that the head of the CIA, Burns, came to Kyiv in June. It was then that the plan was announced: Ukraine needs to return a significant part of the territories by autumn; move artillery and missile systems to the Crimean border, and then you can talk to Moscow from a position of strength. Actually, everything was presented in such a way that it was Kyiv who informed the head of the CIA about such a plan. But it seemed to be the other way around. Because it doesn’t “beat” Zelensky’s mantra, repeated again this week, that negotiations are possible only after Ukraine enters the borders of 1991.
Our Medvedev could not resist and commented (or even predicted) “borders 1991”: “These are the borders of the regions of Russia and once the provinces of the Russian Empire, and not the mythical Ukraine. There is no such land. Whatever they think in the West and in the occupied Russian city of Kiev.”
There is no doubt about one thing: the upcoming week will be hot not at all because it is summer.
And in order not to overheat , I recommend listening to Lukashenka, who also explained what happened, and, most importantly, what will happen: «Don't worry, everything will be fine, sometimes even good.»