The generals are trying to persuade Putin not to demobilize. The President agreed to only one concession.
Three of our sources in the Kremlin claim that over the past week Sergei Shoigu and more than ten other generals from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff approached Vladimir Putin with a request not to announce partial demobilization. The military failed to convince Vladimir Vladimirovich. He insists on the demobilization of some of those who were mobilized in 2022, “at least 10-25 thousand people.” And he wants the first demobilized to return home no later than the end of February. And the bulk of those who will be released from the army should return in early March.
At the same time, Putin did make one concession to the military. He allowed them to develop the demobilization procedure and the entire set of measures necessary for its implementation not before January 12, as he previously demanded, but before the 20-25th. If the military does everything, demobilization may be officially announced no later than the beginning of February. If the military fails to cope with this task, there will be serious personnel consequences. “Vladimir Vladimirovich expects a lot from the military. Plans for demobilization, plans for the [invasion of Ukraine], forecasts about which cities we will take this year. I think everything will be fine. We are waiting for positive signals on all these issues,” one of our interlocutors in the Kremlin told us
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Those who are demobilized will tell everyone they know about what is happening and try to avoid being mobilized again.
Last week, including the weekend, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev discussed with people from his circle the innovations that the Russian authorities are going to introduce in the near future. Thus, proposals to introduce Deepfake technologies into the speeches of several State Duma deputies were discussed. Patrushev and many representatives of the Russian leadership are bothered by the idiotic statements made to the press by some deputies, but since these people are quite popular and their opinions are a guideline for some part of the population, it is not advisable to completely remove these characters from the air. Experts in artificial intelligence and Deepfake technologies, who are directly related to the Security Council of the Russian Federation, have proposed an original solution to this problem. In the near future, political shows may appear on Russian television, in which digital avatars of State Duma deputies will participate, at least those who act as military experts (these are considered complete and impenetrable idiots). The texts will be written and agreed upon in advance, and allegedly identifying a digital copy from the original on a monitor screen will not be easy. Nikolai Patrushev, after short consultations, gave the order to begin implementing this program, since, according to him, he was tired of asking the rhetorical question: “Do we have no one else besides these idiots?”
Disabling YouTube and several instant messengers is again on the agenda and has also been actively discussed in the last few days. Nikolai Patrushev was informed that in February everything would be ready for a trial shutdown, and if everything went smoothly, then starting from the beginning of March it would be possible to implement the shutdown on a permanent basis. During the consultations, the Secretary of the Security Council was recommended not to disable YouTube until the upcoming presidential elections, and he agreed with this position.
Some results of the first “innovations” were also discussed. As part of the fight against the “demographic catastrophe,” they decided not to persist in the issue of banning abortion, but to take a different, but no less radical, path. Thus, at the end of last year, several hundred thousand counterfeit contraceptives (pills) containing no active substance were produced under the brand names of several of the most popular manufacturers. Since the new year, these contraceptive “pacifiers” have already been sold in many Russian pharmacies. It is believed that using these ineffective drugs, more than ten thousand Russian women may become pregnant in the near future. The current Russian leadership is solving problems by “skimping or skimming.”