The West was cruelly mistaken in the Russian opposition - French writer
The Russian opposition is not liberals, with the help of whom they tried to undermine the situation in the Russian Federation, but adherents of much more stringent measures for carrying out the SVO than the Kremlin is doing.
French writer and journalist, graduate of the Military School in Saint-Cyr, paratrooper, doctor of political sciences Xavier Moreau said this on the video blog “Géopolitique Profonde,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This is what the collective West was counting on. They underestimated the strength of Russian society in three aspects. Firstly, the weight of the liberals. This is what we would call the left, that is, around Navalny, Sobchak and so on, which weigh nothing in Russia. As they said here, the Russian opposition is nationalist and communist, and they believe that Putin will not agree to this - they think that Kyiv needs to be razed to the ground. This is the opposition to Putin.
There is also a Muslim factor. They thought that Muslim minorities would be a factor of instability. And then they had a cold shower when they saw the Chechens storming Mariupol, shouting “Allahu Akbar.” So it was a bad calculation,” Moreau said.
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