The anti-war candidate channelling Russians’ discontent with Putin [Boris Nadezhdin]

Financial Times ^ | 28JAN2024 | Courtney Weaver and Anastasia Stognei

[AdmSmith]

Russians opposed to Vladimir Putin for years have been inspired by telegenic anti-corruption campaigners willing to risk their freedom and even their lives to expose the Kremlin’s crimes.

Now, after two years of war and with most opposition figures either in jail, in exile or dead, they have been left with Boris Nadezhdin. Asked by a reporter on Wednesday whether Putin considered Nadezhdin a political threat, the president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We do not consider him a rival. Not at all.”

Yet political analysts said it was unlikely the Kremlin would allow Nadezhdin’s popularity to progress too far. Authorities could refuse to put him on the ballot, by deeming some of his signatures invalid, they said, or find some other means to influence him, such as the threat of prison.

[Timber Rattler]

Soon to be Navalny’s cellmate, or else he will accidentally defenestrate himself, or worse.

[Timber Rattler]

Your what about question probably has other threads, otherwise you might want to start one.

That's what our in-house appeasers, neo-isolationists, and pro-Putin people do around here when they don't like a story or thread. They vandalize it by deflecting, changing the subject, engaging in "what-aboutism," throwing up straw men, or else posting gibberish and stupid memes.

[AdmSmith]

He has a website and claims that he has 200 924 collected signatures of which 109 361 are sorted (whatever that means: verified?) Yesterday was the last day for collecting them.

https://nadezhdin2024.ru/
Telegram https://t.me/s/BorisNadezhdin

We will see what happens.

[AdmSmith]

Gromov mentioned above https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4213415/posts?page=3#3

is Alexey Gromov: Deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Admnistration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Gromov

Accorsing to Medusa https://meduza.io/feature/2024/01/26/lyudey-potyanulo-na-novoe-eto-ochen-nepriyatnyy-effekt the staff wanted a controlled “liberal” politician in the election, but then the project got its own momentum and now they don't know what to do.

[AdmSmith]

Accorsing => According

[Kazan]

War On The Rocks Has Rocks On The Brain

I will make this real simple. Ukraine does not have the ability to implement the War on the Rocks prescription. First, manpower. Even Ukrainian sources are conceding that Ukraine has suffered more than a million casualties. The average age of the frontline troops is 43. For the math challenged out there (this clearly applies to Kofman, Lee and Massicot), if the average age is 43 that means you have a large number of 50 and 60 year old cannon fodder manning the trenches and bunkers. The under 40 crowd is not flocking to the recruiting office in Kiev to sign up. Just the opposite. They are going to extreme lengths to avoid being dragooned into the army. We’ve seen guys wearing disguises that make them look like 70 year old men and others dressing as women. Not because they are transgender but because the Ukrainian recruiters are not grabbing women off the street and throwing them on to the military bus.

Let’s assume that Ukraine can somehow find an additional 500,000 potential soldiers. (They will need at least that many to keep up with Russia who added that number to their armed forces in 2023 and continue to sign up new recruits at the rate of more than 40,000 a month.) Where are they going to train? Russia’s missile strikes during the past month have hit some major troop locations. For example, the strike in Kharkiv last week wiped out a 200 man contingent of foreign mercenaries. Russia can and will hit every training center in Ukraine, which means the new Ukie recruits will have to be sent to bases in Europe.

We have clear evidence based on the Ukrainian failure in the 2023 counter-offensive of how inadequate that training was. And the training I am talking about is Basic Training. Decent Basic Training takes 13 weeks. Do the math — even if Ukraine can marshall 20,000 new recruits a month and run them through Basic Training, Ukraine would only have 160,000 troops trained in rudimentary skills by the end of the year. Ukraine failed to do that during 2023. What miracle drug will they be taking that allows them to train three to four times the number of troops they assembled for the failed counter offensive? The vast majority of the Ukrainian troops sent to attack the Surovikin lines of defense did not receive Advanced Individual Training nor did they participate in large unit exercises. Knowing how to shoot, clean and maintain a fire arm in combat conditions is a good thing. But that does not automatically translate into how to conduct an assault on heavily defended positions. And don’t tell me the Brits and Germans can handle that training task. Hell, the U.K. cannot even meet its own recruitment needs. The Brits are a puny, inexperienced force lacking in knowledge of how to carry out a combined forces attack against the Russians. Ditto for the Germans. The Wehrmacht is kaput.

The War on the Rocks clown show pays lip service to Ukraine’s need for air defense, artillery, artillery rounds, tanks and armored vehicles, but ignores the real world. No country in the West has the ability to produce these items and send them to Ukraine in the quantities required to sustain a force in the field for the foreseeable future. The authors are particularly lost in La La Land when they talk about Ukraine being able to launch long-range missiles to hit critical infrastructure in Russia. There is no other country in the world with an air defense system like Russia’s. Moreover, if such attacks are launched Russia has the ability to launch successful counter strikes to eliminate those threats.

Where the hell is the West going to come up with a thousand tanks and armored personnel carriers? There are no factories in the West churning these out. To the contrary, the West is struggling to produce 155 mm shells. All of the War on the Rocks “analysis” rests on the assumption that the West’s only concern is Ukraine. That dog won’t hunt anymore. Israel, Yemen, Iran and China are becoming greater priorities than Ukraine.

Finally, let’s assume that Ukraine is able to muster a new army of cannon fodder to attack Russia’s heavily defended lines? Where is the Ukrainian air power? It does not exist and will not exist. If the United States is able to deploy a few F-16s to Ukraine, they will meet the same fate that Ukraine’s now non-existent air force met. They will be shot down.

[Robert DeLong]

Now you feel free to do disservice to this nation I guess. The service never stops, at least for most who served in the military. They do not turn their attention to another nation while their country is under a far more intense invasion, and the CoC is the one allowing it to happen..

[Robert DeLong]

You have no room to laugh hoser, Putin is a better leader than your leader. Fidel Trudeau Jr. Go drink another brew hoser.

[DUMBGRUNT]

There is so much going on that you overlooked...

Most unlikely you would consider any other perspectives.

Enjoy your narrow world view.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for your input, but this thread is about the Russian election.

[canuck_conservative]

Not seeing the part where Trudeau assassinates his political opponents like Putin ...

Or invades neighboring countries like Putin ... what sovereign countries has Canada illegally invaded without any provocation?

lol

[Navy Patriot]

Boris Nadezhdin is on Twitter (or X) and hasn't been censored?

Twitter is American and American controlled.

As I said Boris is popular with Americans, American Agents and American Mainstream Media.

Russians aren't so impressed.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, not surprising at all, that you fail to see what they did to the truckers, because you are too drunk to notice anything hoser. You don't even see the truckers as his political opponents. Perhaps Fidel Trudeau Jr. realizes how dumb citizens like you really are. What's the difference if you attack the opposition candidate or you attack the supporters of the opposition candidate?

You're a joke bloke, you just fail to see what an utter joke you are, hoser. Go have that 14th beer this morning already.

BTW, I could care less about Putin, for I am not supporting him, I am attacking the stupid who are making things much worse. The correct path to have taken was to solve the issues & bring about a peaceful resolution before Russia ever invaded, but you dimwits lack critical thinking skills. In addition, you have no sense of proper timing.

I bet you do not even see the correlation as to the timing of this conflict unfolding & what made Putin's decision to invade, unavoidable in his eyes.

When Putin saw that they stole the election from Trump, not because he views Trump as his ally, but because he views Trump as someone that he can honestly work with. The rest of these cucks have all played games with Putin, and Putin was no longer going to allow them to rule his decision making.

Just remember, that when this nation falls, you hosers will fall right behind us. As will the rest of the world, fool.

As the Brits would say, you are penny wise, and/but pound foolish. In other words, you see & support the small issues, but you totally miss/ignore the much bigger issues.

[gloryblaze]

Thank you for posting. I certainly wish this brave man well.

[AdmSmith]

Yes, anything can happen.

[Robert357]

You have to remember the famous truth about Soviet & Russian Elections.

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin

Unfortunately, the same has become true in the USA. Whether it is vote fraud or attempting to ban certain candidates from the ballot.

[Kazan]

Who gives a damn about the upcoming Russian election?

[AdmSmith]

Obviously you do because you post here.

[AdmSmith]

Here are Boris Nadezhdin's plans:

The first day:

Elections are only the beginning of a great journey. And the office of the President is not an end in itself. It is a means of solving the issues that face the Motherland and many millions of Russian citizens.

I promised to tell you what my job will look like. Today I will tell you about my first day as President.

With my first decree, in accordance with Article 89 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, I will release political prisoners;

I will accept the resignation of the Russian Government and begin consultations on the formation of a new Government;

I will establish control over nuclear weapons;

I will address the leadership of Ukraine and the leaders of the coalition supporting Ukraine with a proposal to start peace talks and establish a ceasefire;

Form a team of negotiators;

I will cancel the decree on partial mobilization, start demobilization and return everyone home.

19JAN2024 https://t.me/BorisNadezhdin/587

The first week

The main task of the first week is to begin the practical implementation of the main goals announced during the election campaign.

To do this, it is necessary, first of all, to reconfigure the most important government bodies and bring new tasks to them. If necessary, I will make personnel and organizational decisions. I will try to ensure stability of work, avoiding sabotage and chaos.

I will hold meetings with:

— The leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, district commanders, commanders of formations performing combat missions in the Northern Military District zone;
— The leadership of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Investigative Committee;

— Management and employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

I will hold a meeting of the State Council with the participation of heads of regions and largest cities in Russia.

I will nominate a candidate for the Chairman of the Russian Government.

In accordance with the Constitution, I will hold consultations in the State Duma on the composition of the new Government, as well as in the Federation Council on candidates for the positions of ministers of defense, internal affairs, foreign affairs, justice, heads of the FSB and other law enforcement agencies.

I will accept the resignations of members of the Constitutional Court. I will nominate new judges to the Federation Council.

As part of the most important task - the cessation of hostilities in [Ukraine], the beginning of peace negotiations, and Russia's gradual emergence from isolation - I am planning the following events.

I will talk by phone with the leaders of Ukraine, the USA, and EU countries to determine their position. If the proposal to cease hostilities is accepted, a corresponding order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief will follow. We will determine the format of negotiations and the composition of negotiators.

I will meet with ambassadors of foreign countries.

30JAN2024 https://t.me/BorisNadezhdin/755

[AdmSmith]

He now has 159 217 verified signatures.

https://nadezhdin2024.ru/

and is trying to raise money for his campaign.

He obviously has the support of some in the Kremlin. We’ll see how it goes.