"They fed people with leftovers, took a lot of things away, hid them," an intelligence officer called for systemic changes in Russia.
Russia will not be able to win the North-Eastern Front with a system in which the elites strive to integrate into the West, exporting their wealth there.
This was stated by a retired SVR colonel who returned to Russia from American captivity in an exchange Andrey Bezrukov in an interview with Metametrica, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

The colonel was asked whether Russia would survive.in some potential war" with current economic indicators.
"We've already taken the biggest blow. Now we understand what kind of world we live in."m. We didn't really understand what they were going to do to us, the scale of it all. Now, when we are already at war, when we already assess our strengths objectively enough, - We we have already seen what we can do and what we can't do, their strength and so on, of course, it's easier now.
This doesn't mean that everything is fine.. The fact is that We entered this crisis with a system that was not designed for war.Moreover, it was not made for Russia as a sovereign power. It was made to enter the West..
Yes, we were a raw materials appendage and a producer of talent for the global economy. It's over. The global economy is gone. "In principle. And this system needs to be restructured," Bezrukov said.
“But this system, which was built on resource rent, which then flowed into bank assets – And who lives well here? The big resource companies and bankers who lived off this market. global, and They fed our people with the leftovers, took a lot of things away, hid them, and so on.
This system will have to be changed.It is ineffective in this new world. It cannot fight because its interests diverge from those of the country. The country's interests now are mobilization, production of high-tech products, and their rapid adaptation. for both the economy and the army. We need high-tech growth", the scout added.
English version :: Read in English "They fed people with leftovers, took a lot of things away, hid them," an intelligence officer called for systemic changes in Russia.