We may have to wait for many years for a Kremlin insider to explain in detail \u2013 what was the logic and motivation behind Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
From an outside perspective \u2013 his dictatorship within the Russian federation \u2013 was secure.<\/p>\n
Whilst discontent may have been a constant annoyance \u2013 it was rarely more than just that \u2013 an annoyance.\u00a0 And excluding the more westernised major cities \u2013 the population continued to support Putin and his United Russia party \u2013 allowing him free reign to set the political and economic objectives.<\/p>\n
Negatively (and embarrassingly) the failings of the Soviet Union continued to blight Putin\u2019s Russia though \u2013 the countries inability to produce world class products in the industrial, electronic and consumer segment continued 30-years after the fall of Marxism.<\/p>\n
But like the Soviets \u2013 did Putin care?<\/p>\n
Annual gross income pre-China flu had risen 10% between 2010 and 2019 (below 2010 during the \u201920 pandemic)<\/p>\n
The EU remained a constant net importer of Russian goods, with the balance of payments between Russia and the EC bloc \u2013 showing balance in favour of Russia between \u20ac15 billion 2020 and \u20ac70 billion in 2021<\/p>\n
And Russia was the 11th<\/sup> largest economy globally and blessed by its natural resources in the energy and mining sectors.<\/p>\n Externally \u2013 the annexation of the Crimea \u2013 had caused limited outrage in the west, the protection of the Belorussia puppet state had created friction with former allies in the Warsaw Pact, namely Poland and the Baltic states \u2013 and NATO\u2019s \u201csleepwalking\u201d expansion closer to the Russian border \u2013 could be considered insulting to Russia.<\/p>\n But in both east and west \u2013 Putin \u2013 was accepted as the legitimate leader of Russia.<\/p>\n We Populists \u2013 unlike the Globalists (Merkel and co) – were never apologists for the Putin regime \u2013 but we did hope that Russia at the centre of Eurasia \u2013 would find a common understanding with us – and be a co-leader in the anti-communist alliance. Red China and its allies \u2013 were our enemies, never Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n Unfortunately \u2013 the fateful decision by the Kremlin to invade the Ukraine \u2013 has made this wish unobtainable \u2013 and with Russia\u2019s allies shrinking to solely pseudo communist failed states, like the \u201crocket boy\u201d in North Korea, Syria, Zimbabwe, Angola, South Africa, Venezuela \u2013 and corrupt Pakistan \u2013 Russia has instead of remaining a world power has now become solely an \u201corphan\u201d on the world stage \u2013 and perfect pickings to the Reds in China.<\/p>\n Russian energy policy and prices are now dictated by Beijing<\/strong> \u2013 with only India as the other large remaining market<\/p>\n Russian foreign policy is now dictated by Beijing<\/strong> \u2013 with Putin \u2013 regardless of Russian interests having to support China Communist aggression in the Pacific and the Taiwan straits.<\/p>\n And today\u2019s meeting between Putin and the red leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan \u2013 will no longer be a meeting of equals regardless of their public declarations of a \u201climitless partnership\u201d but instead the relegation of Russia from a global power to that of a vassal state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We may have to wait for many years for a Kremlin insider to explain in detail \u2013 what was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}