Posted on 03/01/2019 11:53:54 PM PST by NorseViking
The Kremlin remains determined to establish itself as a hegemonic great power, and to follow the domestic as well as international priorities that have underpinned that objective since Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. But Russia’s wider public has become less committed to the Kremlin agenda.
The unknown of what happens when Vladimir Putin’s second term as president ends by 2024 weighs on the public mind. That alone attracts attention to domestic questions rather than international issues. The succession to Putin, whenever it is to happen, is not just about who it might be but also what that person or persons might or ought to do to direct Russia’s future.
There are no signs that Russia’s present and narrowing circle of decision-makers are ready to revisit the questions of structural economic, and therefore political, reform that are needed for the country to flourish. The repression that underpins Putin’s rule continues to grow.
Polls apart Real incomes per head have fallen by between 11% and 14% over the four years since the seizure of Crimea and the injection of pride in Russia as a great power it then gave to the public. Polls now show that confidence in the government, and Russian institutions in general, has reached a low last seen in 2002. Levada reported 53% of Russians urging the Medvedev cabinet’s dismissal in December 2018.
As much to the point is the erosion of the previously convenient popular supposition that Russia’s government is one thing, and Putin another: trust in him personally fell over the year from around 60% to 39%. Levada polls also showed that over 2018, the number of those who considered Putin personally accountable for dealing with the whole range of Russia’s problems rose from somewhere around 40% in 2015-17 to 61% now.
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Putin has no plans to retire after his term is up in 2024. As in Venezuela, he will ignore the Duma and voters, find some excuse to disqualify candidates, declare a stalemate/national emergency, and crown himself Emperor of the Russian Empire.
And do you think anyone is going to oppose him? He isn’t the forgiving kind. How do you say KGB/SFB, Pollonium, 2 to the back of the head, and Lubyanka ain’t half filled?
Well, that’s one take on it.
How do we know his replacement wouldn’t be even worse?
Better the Devil You Know.
I dont trust polls from ANYWHERE anymore.
Especially since Trump and Putin are seen as colluding monsters that need to be taken down.
I guess everyone forgot about the reset button. SMH
Putin is BRUTAL and I wouldn’t want to cross him and don’t approve of poisoning your opponents with radiation!!
But if you watch youtube videos of him interacting throughout his own country, he loves Russia.
One thing he and Trump have in common.
Loving their country.
That’s anathema to ALL MSM EVERYWHERE today.
Please do not stoop so low as to put Putin in anywhere near the same vein as Trump. No comparison. Trump is way out of Putin’s league on every level.
Putin —along with his handy hand of oligarch elites— disdains the Russian people and fears them, which is why he must keep them subjugated. He is also afraid of jail or recourse once he leaves office, which is why picking a successor is so crucial.
I’ve stopped lower.
don’t get them in a bunch.
I simply said Putin loved his country.
Your screen name says you stoop so low as to praise a New World Order Neocon and I don’t bug you about it :)
Learn to read closer.
It’s fundamental :)
Right so the Russian oligarchy and all their vast holdings of Western land and banks is not NWO? What is it then? And their holdings in Iran and Venezuela?
And also another difference is that Putin has a 24-7 sycophantic neo- Soviet media propaganda arm, unlike Trump. Zero independent media.
Sigh. Too many spoiled RT watching westerners sitting atop their perches with no real concern for how the vast majority of Russians are actually affected by Putin’s self serving shenaningans.
Russians in my area do not like or actually hate Putin. Russia is falling apart and young people are leaving.
But let’s hear what the Putin puffers have to say...
Owning something abroad is not NWO. Lecturing other nations on how they should organize things sure is.
Net worth estimates somewhere between $70 and 200 Bn. With a B.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a14480615/vladimir-putin-net-worth/
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, more than half a million Russians have immigrated to Northwest Philadelphia. For the most part, they are capitalist, having seen what communism has done to them in Mother Russia. But many of them are more loyal to Russia than the USA. The Jewish Russians are the most hardend leftest imaginable. They came here via Israel. It makes you wonder why the hell we accept them into the USA, considering all the troubles these Bolsheviks cause.
Exactly! Here Broward county the same thing. I’m on a friendly basis with many and there’s a difference between the Jews and non Jews...not 100% but enough to notice. Broward is infested with NE libs...Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are considered heros here...
Need to rephrase that. Russian Jews that I know..and it’s just a few..are not as much anti Putin as other Russians. Most I know are pro Trump...or just anti Hillary.
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