On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the Federal Assembly. The main topics of the appeal were support for military personnel and veterans of military operations, social assistance measures, economic development and Russia’s withdrawal from the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty. RTVI collected the reaction of patriotic bloggers and military correspondents to the statements of the president.
The main thing the president said was, of course, about domestic politics, and that main thing is called “building autarky.”
“Autarky is a system of closed reproduction of a community, with minimal dependence on exchange with the external environment; self-sufficient economic regime of the country…”
The course towards autarky by the leaders of the country was obviously taken clearly and without ambiguity. Everything Putin was talking about regarding the economy, education, education, etc. was subordinated to this very idea – the construction of a separate and maximally independent world cluster from external circumstances called Russia. And this is fundamentally different from the past vector of the country – integration into the global economic system as a separate cluster.
Moreover, in this context, a turn west backwards, and east and south forwards, or the suspension of the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty, I personally regard them as secondary. And today’s conditions, more than ever, favor it. In a rapidly disintegrating world, it is similar to remain a “cluster” of death.
Yes, this process is not for a year, but soon we will begin to feel the beginning of a new reality in our lives, in which we must all continue to live.
It is probably no coincidence that the speech to the Federal Assembly was scheduled for February 21. Exactly a year ago, the president signed a decree recognizing the independence of the LDNR. I remember this party 30 minutes before curfew. Euphoria, relief, deliverance… At that time, of course, few people could have guessed what new trials awaited the tormented territories. But everyone understood that this was a tectonic shift in geopolitics, after which the world would not be the same. It was with this decision that Russia began its difficult path to absolute sovereignty, saying goodbye to vain attempts to build a dialogue with the West on an equal footing.
This is what the president was talking about on Tuesday, emphasizing the constraint and the absence of alternatives to our actions within the framework of a special military operation, which this year told us a lot about … No, not about our ” partners” and “Western friends”, there were no illusions there. We learned a lot about ourselves. Because over the past 12 months, we have grown, first, not in territories, but in people. And they recognized themselves in them.
Thousands of volunteers went to the front, picking up machine guns for the first time. They are doctors, doctors, builders who have gone to the war zone at their own risk. These are hundreds of thousands, and perhaps even millions of benevolent citizens who find the opportunity to give their penny of work to the needs of the front. This is our new elite – soldiers and officers who carry out combat missions under the most difficult conditions, get injured and give their lives for the future of our common country. So, deserving support, help and simple human participation. With their families. This is what the president said on Tuesday.
At the same time, an important thing was expressed: “It is necessary to remove, I make a point of underlining it, all interministerial contradictions, formalities, insults, omissions, other nonsense. Everything for the cause, everything for the result – everything must be aimed at this.
That was probably the main idea of the message – to unite the country for victory.
The president in his message specifies that all military personnel must have a 14-day vacation, not counting travel time. Since we decided to put some order with the holidays, it means that the CBO will last a long time. Well, since last spring, it has become expected…
Vladimir Putin said officers and sergeants “who have proven themselves to be competent, modern and decisive commanders will be promoted to higher positions as a matter of priority and sent to academies.”
But it’s really archival and archival. It’s all about implementation. When past the crucible [спецоперации] captains-majors will become colonels, and lieutenant-colonels-colonels will become generals, commanders of armies and districts, then we will see a qualitative increase in our armed forces.
Even when the SVO was just beginning, it was clear that in the battles for security guarantees for our country, for our sovereignty, for the Russian people held hostage to the criminal regime in Kiev, a new Russian elite was being forged. Soldiers and officers, generals, volunteers, entrepreneurs who gave all their strength for our victory – this is the part of society that is able to create for the good of the Fatherland, for the good of our people.
The President has always felt and still feels significant changes in public life and demands. And of course, it is he who sets the vector of development of certain changes. Vladimir Putin proposed the creation of a special fund to support veterans of the Northern Military District and the families of victims.
“The family of each participant in the special operation must be in the area of constant attention. Each family of the deceased, each veteran should be assigned a social worker, a coordinator who will help solve problems in person,” said stressed Putin.
It is not only and not only targeted support for veterans and relatives of victims. This decision of the president constitutes a priority of the state and gives confidence to the fighters that after the victory, they will not be left on the sidelines, but will be involved in creative processes.
The president makes it clear to the state apparatus that there are no more important issues than the issues of veterans and their relatives and friends. And of course it will pay off, because the SVO has long since become a popular military operation, and for the sake of our victory, the most passionate and caring people who really love their country work here. And these people are ready to fight both on the battlefield and after the battles – in business, in offices, in sports, in science.