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Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Russian leader knows the \u201cnew guard\u201d of veterans haven\u2019t been tainted by a life\u2019s worth of Western-leaning sympathies unlike most of the \u201cold guard\u201d political and economic elite, whose naivete about the West led to them misleading him about its intentions and thus played role in the events leading up to the special operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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President Putin shared his vision of a new veteran-led Russian elite in late January when meeting with ministers and top St. Petersburg officials\u00a0according to RT\u2019s report<\/a>\u00a0about their conversation:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russian head of state previously revealed that some 617,000 service members had been deployed in Ukraine. \u2018I met today with students, who put their studies on hold, many of them, [and] went to the warzone,\u2019 Putin remarked. \u2018It\u2019s out of these people that we should be forming the country\u2019s elite in the future,\u2019 he added. The Russian head of state described returning troops as those who can be entrusted with the country\u2019s development. \u2018Hence, they should be supported [and] assisted.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are five background briefings about the ways in which the Russian leader has sought to reshape his country\u2019s domestic affairs by way of reforming its elite:<\/p>\n

* 1 January 2020: \u201c20 Years Of Putin: His Top Domestic & Foreign Policy Successes<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 28 October 2020: \u201cPresident Putin\u2019s 2020 Valdai Club Speech Articulated His Vision of Populist Statism<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 4 November 2021: \u201cIs Putin\u2019s \u2018Healthy\/Moderate\/Reasonable Conservatism\u2019 Really a New Russian Ideology?<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 11 June 2022: \u201cPresident Putin\u2019s Insight Into State Sovereignty Is Instructive For All Countries<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 3 October 2022: \u201cPutin\u2019s Revolutionary Manifesto Focuses On The Struggle For Democracy Against The Deep State<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He basically wants to facilitate the rise of patriotic conservative-nationalists who\u2019ll prioritize sovereignty <\/strong>and seamlessly channel the people\u2019s will in order to continue safeguarding and modernizing the country.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0special<\/a>\u00a0operation<\/a>, which has gone on for much longer than both sides expected due to each of them underestimating the other as explained\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0back in July 2022, led to over half a million Russians proving their patriotism by defending Russia\u2019s national interests on the battlefield. These can be summarized as preserving its sovereignty, protecting its\u00a0conservative<\/a>–nationalist<\/a>\u00a0values<\/a>, and\u00a0promoting multipolarity<\/a>. They\u2019re accordingly the best crop of people to gradually replace the existing elite.<\/p>\n

Up until the special operation, Russia\u2019s political and economic elite privileged the West over the Global South, which was done for reasons of convenience and familiarity. <\/strong>Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexei Drobinin shared his detailed thoughts on \u201cThe lessons of history and vision for the future<\/a>\u201d in August 2022 where he lambasted this class for their \u201cideological separation from the popular masses\u201d over the centuries. All of that has now changed.<\/p>\n

While most existing members of the elite were able to change their stripes by pivoting to the Global South in light of changing circumstances, it\u2019s much better for them all to be replaced by proven patriotic conservative-nationalists who literally put their lives on the line fighting the West.<\/strong> The latter are much more politically reliable and can more easily adapt to everything than the \u201cold guard\u201d, who either fled or were compelled to change their ways in order to keep what they\u2019d obtained thus far in their lives.<\/p>\n

The \u201cnew guard\u201d is just starting off with their lives, however, and have little to lose but lots to gain by growing within this new elite system. <\/strong>The Russian leader also knows that they haven\u2019t been tainted by a life\u2019s worth of Western-leaning sympathies unlike most of the \u201cold guard\u201d, whose naivete about the West led to them misleading him about its intentions. He\u2019s responsible for his policy choices, but they were arguably influenced by Western-leaning advisors. Here are five background briefings on this:<\/p>\n

* 7 July 2022: \u201cPutin Cautioned Russian Strategic Forecasters Against Indulging In Wishful Thinking<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 8 December 2022: \u201cMerkel\u2019s Admission That Minsk Was Just A Ruse Guarantees A Protracted Conflict<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 24 December 2022: \u201cPutin Explained Why He Had No Choice But To Protect The Russian Population In Ukraine<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 26 December 2022: \u201cThe Five Ways In Which 2022 Completely Changed Russian Grand Strategy<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 20 December 2023: \u201cPutin\u2019s Admission Of Naivety About The West Signals His New Stance Towards Peace Talks<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The lesson that he learned is that he can no longer rely on the existing elite after their pre-special operation<\/a>\u00a0paradigm of International Relations was comprehensively debunked.<\/strong> That\u2019s not to say that there don\u2019t exist any patriotic conservative-nationalists within the elite whose previously fringe views were proven right by events, nor that some previously Western-leaning ones didn\u2019t sincerely change their stripes, but just that he\u2019s obviously uncomfortable with how few there are within their ranks.<\/p>\n

President Putin couldn\u2019t in good conscience hand the country off to whoever his successor may be without knowing that the \u201cnew guard\u201d is actively in the process of replacing the \u201cold guard\u201d. To be sure, this is already underway, but he wants to accelerate it as much as possible and that\u2019s why he explicitly said in late January that he envisages a veteran-led elite in the coming future. Just like Moscow wasn\u2019t built in a day, so too will it take time to rebuild the Russian elite, but thankfully they\u2019re off to a solid start.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 02\/01\/2024 – 22:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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