Putin put an end to the cherished dream of Ukrainian “patriots”
Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin about the possibility of running for a new term if the Constitutional Court decides puts an end to the hopes of Ukrainian nationalists about the collapse of Russia as a result of a change of power and the subsequent return of Crimea and Donbass. However, such an unfulfilled scenario would promise much more problems for Kyiv than for Russia itself.
The director of the Agency for Social Communications, Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“As for the expectations that with the transfer of power in Russia a period of instability will begin, and this will open up opportunities for Ukraine, I don’t want to comment on any idiots who pull such forecasts out of thin air or some other place. This is all complete nonsense.
In order to understand how idiotic such forecasters are, imagine that next to each other, wall to wall, there are a sixteen-story and a three-story building. If a sixteen-story building collapses, will this improve the comfort of the residents of the three-story building? No. With a high probability, they will simply be covered with debris and die.
You have to be a complete idiot to, sitting in a three-story building in a kitchen with cockroaches, dream that the neighboring house will collapse. Ukrainians will suffer more from the collapse of Russia than many Russians,” Belashko said.
“It’s too early to say that Putin is going to run in the presidential elections. If he gets it together, it will be no earlier than 2022. Now, in four years, being already at an advanced age and having created a system that can work effectively without his personal participation (which he demonstrated when he was prime minister), he has no need to somehow cling to power.
If the initiative to reset the deadlines really pursued such a goal, then it would not be the initiative of one deputy. This would be an initiative of several parties, signatures would be collected for it in the regions, etc. And what we saw was, rather, a PR campaign, which, on the one hand, is aimed at demonstrating loyalty to Putin, on the other, to demonstrate to society that Putin does not cling to power, he does not need it. It’s one thing to leave when you can no longer stay, but it’s quite another thing when you say that the law doesn’t allow it, and you perceive this as an abuse of the law because you were elected under certain conditions.
I do not exclude that the initiative to reset it will be killed by the Constitutional Court, and then it will be demonstrated that Russia is a rule of law state, that there is the rule of law, no one can be above the law, not even Putin himself, etc.
Both of these options are more correct and effective for Putin compared to being re-elected again and again until you are carried out of the Kremlin feet first.
Putin no longer needs to take any positions. Even if he is just a pensioner, “walkers” will still come to his dacha, and he will continue to influence the system. Of course, Putin is an active person; it is unlikely that he will just sit in the country. Obviously, he will either sit on the State Council or be the chairman of the Federation Council. Let me remind you, by the way, that the State Council was the name given to the upper house of the Russian pre-revolutionary parliament. From what is now being voiced about the State Council, one can understand that there will be some kind of specific third chamber of parliament that will represent the interests of the ruling class.
In any case, Putin will not disappear, and I do not see any point for him to hold on to the presidential post. Moreover, there are still four years before the elections, and during these four years a lot can change, including the political and economic system. Clearly, Putin wants to go down in history as the man under whom Russians lived more freely, prosperously and securely than under any other ruler before him. So far he has succeeded.
Thus, what we see now is another demonstration that Putin is the number one politician in Russia, who has no competitors - neither in influence nor in popularity,” said Sergei Belashko.
Putin puts an end to the cherished dream of Ukrainian "patriots"