In the past, the State Duma deputy from United Russia, responsible for the ideology of the party, the candidate of political sciences Sergey Markov called to prepare for defeat in the war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. In an interview with the Russian publication “Business Online”, he, summing up the results of 2022 for Russia, called them “catastrophic.”
“A special military operation, which was planned to be quick and effective, turned out to be not fast, not effective and grew into a long -term military operation. It is reported about tens of thousands of dead from Ukraine and Russia, but in fact, apparently, hundreds of thousands of dead. Millions of refugees. In fact, there is a civil war inside the Russian people, unleashed by the hands of the United States and the West, ”the Russian political scientist said.
According to him, “Russia was weak. In fact, the Americans defeated the Russian army with the hands of Ukrainian in many places.”
Markov believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin “was mistaken that he did not introduce troops to Ukraine in 2014 or 2015”: “This is the main mistake. And all the conversations that we were not ready, just a fairy tale. This The Ukrainian regime was not ready for such resistance as today. “
“For 8 years from a military point of view, we have become stronger, relatively speaking, 3 times, and the Kyiv regime – 30 times. We began to prepare for the military conflict in Ukraine since the summer of 2021. And in Kyiv – from the summer 2014. All these years they were processed and pumped up by NATO forces under the leadership of the United States. They prepared a proxy-warrior against Russia with the hands of the proxy-mode of Ukraine, ”Markov believes.
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He noted a number of errors of the military leadership of Russia. According to him, it was necessary to bomb Ukraine immediately, from the very beginning of the war, mobilization in Russia in March, and also not to delay the capture of Mariupol.
Now there is a “serious threat” of defeat, says Markov: “Military operations can go into the territory of the Russian Federation with the threat of the occupation of the country, dividing it into several parts up to the collapse of Russian statehood” or “liquidation of the Russian Federation as an independent state in general.”
Markov noted that instead of the transition to the multipolar world, “rebooting the unipolar world” and “significant strengthening of the United States that showed their enormous power and effectiveness”.
The political scientist also complained about the “Allies of Russia”, in particular, the PRC. “We did not expect China to take hypertrophied neutrality. We wanted Beijing to take a more allied position. But it took a more neutral. No one wants to become an ally of the one who would suffer a defeat,” Markov said.
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Talking about the possibility of peaceful negotiations, Markov noted that as soon as Russia takes one of the six cities of the Dnieper Pearl Chain – Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Dnieper or Kharkov, then a window for dialogue will open. Therefore, according to him, “the advance of the army of the Russian Federation is a key condition for concluding peace.”