Leonid Ivashov: Russia is absolutely not ready for a serious war
The Ministry of Finance refuses the proposals of the Ministry of Defense to increase the salary of the military. Despite the fact that, according to the current legislation, salary amounts for military posts and ranks should be indexed annually, taking into account inflation, the salary of the military has not been indexed for five years now - since 2013.
Siluanov can not be Minister of Finance, because this position is state, large-scale. And he clearly, publicly showed himself as the most incompetent accountant. After all, referring to the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed due to high military spending is simply the greatest folly. The Soviet Union collapsed precisely because it was led by the same type as Siluanov-Gorbachev, who could talk, but could not organize and use the enormous potential of the Soviet Union. Including the potential of the defense industry and the army. The collapse began precisely with the fact that they began to discredit the army. Began to display mediocre troops from Eastern Europe. I remember very well how the troops were withdrawn, and absolutely no money was given for their arrangement. How national interests were betrayed by Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze. When the military offered to carry out a systematic withdrawal from Eastern Europe, from the Czech Republic and Hungary, during the 4-5 years, they decided in a narrow circle to withdraw all the troops within a year. They did not resolve issues with ecology, they did not solve issues with real estate, which remained in the former socialist countries. As a result, they left - and they were still due, and the army was thrown into the field. More than 200 of thousands of homeless officers and ensigns were formed at once. Plus, there was a continuous discredit from the same liberals as Siluanov, that the army was ruining the country.
If we take today: what does the army give?
Military orders develop the defense industry. The highest, that neither is in Russia, technology. And these are national technologies, and not trinkets bought abroad.
The army today has provided its high authority with real actions, especially successful actions in Syria, and solved the following tasks.
I drew the attention of many potential partners who were afraid of Russia's weakness and did not make deals with us for civilian products, and especially for defense products. Today we see that in the queue of those wishing to meet with Putin are the leaders of the states who, ten years ago, looked at Russia as an outcast.
For the first time in stories The king of Saudi Arabia, the largest oil state, arrived on a visit. Today, relations with Iran, with Turkey and the purchase of our weapons and not only the agreement in the oil and gas sector allows Siluanov to invest huge money in the budget he forms. This allows you to build perspectives.
Let's honestly admit that our group in Syria has allowed us to support the transportation of Russian gas to Europe through our actions. Otherwise, if we had not entered there, Qatar gas would have already passed through Syria and Turkey to Europe. If it were not for strengthening the army, fighting would intensify in Ukraine. We would no longer supply gas to Europe for the remaining pipes there. And, of course, Nord Stream would have been crushed long ago.
That is what the army did and prevented. It is another matter that the financial and economic bloc of the government cannot even use the highest defense technologies in the civilian sector - which it had to do. Let Siluanov calculate multibillion-dollar losses and the theft, which is allowed in the field of trade in oil and gas and other natural resources. Let Siluanov answer: why has China abandoned three projects, also multi-billion, the same “Power of Siberia”? On what basis? And on the grounds that corruption is too high in the Russian Federation and that our financial and economic structures in the government do not know how to predict. They have no economic and geopolitical analysis. Let Siluanov answer: why the data on deliveries to Europe of our gas and oil, when Germany shows how much Russia paid for deliveries of hydrocarbon raw materials, differ by tens of billions of euros from Russian figures, which show how much has been received in the Russian budget? This is what the finance minister needs to think about, and not to be a preacher of “Western values”, confirming to the enemy that Russia is overly increasing its power and the West should muffle it. Gorbachev also worked with his team of traitors. The result is a weakening of the pivot that historically holds Russia. This is exactly the military core. He gives authority, fame, provides a high status in the world and always pulls the economy.
So, Mr. Siluanov is on the path of so-called “soft power” (today it is in fashion), demanding to cut funding for the armed forces. In the case of the realization of his dreams, we will be spat from all sides, as in the 90s, they spat, scoffed, scoffed. This will be followed by the demoralization of the army, and therefore of society. The collapse of the power block will follow - and there will be no further country. How it happened in 1991
What else is very important? Siluanov, as well as his supporters (which is from the systemic liberal so-called opposition, which sat down in the government, whose residence is not for nothing called the White House, which is from among non-system accomplices), all pour a tear on the people. Siluanov argues that if we increase defense spending and raise salaries for the military, then we will suffer a social sphere: medicine, education, culture, pensions, and so on. That is what people really need.
Gentlemen, officials and oligarchs, in order to keep afloat, are trying to embroil the army with the people and tell lies to the grandmother, why she receives 6 thousands of pensions, why less than 10 thousands is enough for a basket of consumption. When people say that “we do not live, but survive,” liberal thieves say that the army is to blame. This is not the first time in our history. So it was before 1917 year. So it was in 1980-e - "the army is ruining, so you have small pensions." But why Mr. Siluanov will not explain: why, as soon as they arrest a slightly significant official, a representative of state power, so suddenly he has millions and billions? Let him explain: where did Ulyukaev have hundreds of millions and gold bars? And so any official today take, shake - and billions will fall. Here's where to look. Why doesn’t Siluanov explain the reason for the enormous outflow of almost 200 billions of dollars from Russian territory: who, how does it lead? Therefore, they can only grieve for the people for their own well-being, for covering up their criminal acts. Let Mr. Siluanov explain in general: what are the prospects? What kind of Russian government is Medvedev building with the president? What kind of model will it be? Is there a program at all, a development strategy, other than accounting accounting curves? Siluanov, as we see, responds: "We must loot the army and then everything will be fine with us."
Let's talk about the controversy of the Duma members and the Ministry of Finance. The Duma Committee, chaired by Vladimir Shamanov, was finally outraged by the state of affairs that the military did not index salary levels for military posts and titles. Not only Vladimir Anatolyevich Shamanov and his committee should be engaged in this business, but the Investigative Committee should be engaged. After all, it is, on the one hand, the robbery of military personnel, and on the other hand, it is non-compliance with the law. After all, this is laid down in the Law on the status of a soldier and in other laws and regulations. So, for violation of the laws, even less significant, people are imprisoned. Why is Medvedev not sitting with his government when he does not obey the laws, and in the form of handouts he gives to the population of Russia that we will add something to you from November or from January? Government members should be handcuffed like criminals violating the fundamental laws of the Russian state.
And the servicemen ... well, patient. We are all too patient. Hopefully, we believe in “objective difficulties. It is time to believe in reality - sheer theft, sheer corruption, which begins in the Kremlin and permeates all state structures, and draws business, the business community, into it. But the patience of the military is not infinite. The Emergency Committee - this, in fact, was already anguish of this patience. To endure further was impossible. Why did Marshal Yazov join the Emergency Committee? Because the army was defamed, killed officers, made stupid decisions. There is a Constitution, there is Soviet legislation, and in the republics they began to create their own armed groups, refused to send conscripts to serve in the army. Bardak and defamation complete, plus non-payment of salaries. This led to the fact that the army ceased to support the then president - the traitor Gorbachev. At the same time, the traitors laid out the structures of the KGB and law enforcement agencies with "democracy." And everything - the country collapsed.
Today, Mr. Siluanov received such a task - to repeat the sad experience of the Soviet Union. Siluanov, I believe, is no less, but more, than Ulyukayev, a wealthy person. If he did not agree with the current state policy out of principle, he would have faded away at his own will and already lived somewhere in Texas or Hawaii. Here we must understand that a powerful coordinated, well-coordinated geopolitical operation of “soft power” is being conducted against Russia. And the main support for holding the interests of our main geopolitical opponents lies precisely here, in Moscow. Russian agents of the West - the toolkit of this policy. And Mr. Siluanov will hold on to his place, because he was ordered to do so, he was entered into the operation to destroy Russia.
After all, he does not speak somewhere - he speaks to students. He lays in them negative thoughts in relation to the army, in relation to statehood, and so on. He is one of the small instruments of a large operation headed by the world financial oligarch, having assistants and a state named the United States and NATO. Siluanov is built in there, and he trembles so that something does not happen to him if he leaves this operation. He understands that for the fact that he will hand over the position, he will begin to justify the modern policy of Russia, the punishment in the West will be worse for him than any punishment in Russia. Therefore, he works as an agent of the West, as an adherent of the fifth column in the framework of the operation to destroy Russia.
Key players such as ministers and heads of large state corporations should be assigned to tasks. There are tasks that need to be solved. There is a goal to be achieved. And when Putin appoints the Ulyukaevs, the Siluanovs, the Medvedevs (they are full of them there in the government) - does this mean that he sees some task, some kind of goal? On the one hand, the president says: “we need to strengthen the country, increase the well-being of citizens” - but appoints those who oppose it to key positions. To me, the personnel policy of President Putin is completely incomprehensible.
And another moment. The army today is ready to repel the first blow. And thank God. And thanks to Sergey Kuzhugetovich, his team. But the country is absolutely not ready even for a small but serious war. There is no mobilization resource, there is no mobilization capacity, there is not even a mobilization plan. Will the army again be forced to go into bayonet? That's what Siluanov would have to think about if he served Russia. But he is doing everything so that not only the economy was not ready for war (and she is absolutely not ready), but that now the army is not even ready to repel the first strike. And this means that he is working in a completely different operation - an operation against Russia.
Conclusion. Putin needs, first, to discuss with the people: what kind of Russia are we building? And on strategic directions, especially on key ones, to put the highest professional patriots, and not random people. Now, how? I liked it, it says good toasts, maybe something else makes you enjoyable - they put it on the post. This is the path to nowhere, the path to the destruction of Russia. But those who are planning operations against Russia are pushing the destroyer people they need with any effective means. So, the personnel policy plays just on the side of those who impose sanctions against us and are preparing a military strike.
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