The role of tractor drivers was performed by Russian war pilots whom Putin, as the monarch, visited at their base. Those who know Russian, it’s easy will convincethat I am not exaggerating.
You can find the content of Putin’s words in Czech here. It is worth a few notes also because he mentioned the Czech Republic. It’s a vivid example of how the Kremlin fools people who don’t follow the situation.
Putin looked like an idiot when he talked about the fact that the aggressive NATO has such spending on armaments that the hapless Russia with its minuscule options will never go into conflict with the Alliance. Let’s put aside the information here that in the Russian state budget make up this year, only 29.4 percent of declared war expenditures, and 21.1 percent of social expenditures.
Putin painted a picture of a frontal clash between the Russian and NATO armies and called it nonsense because Russia would not stand a chance. But the Kremlin does not even intend to go down this path. It is no secret that a plan has been circulating in the Russian public space for years to achieve the goal of returning the territories that once belonged to the Warsaw Pact. The clash of armies does not figure in it.
The key process of returning to the former vassal states and bringing them back into a state of subordination leads elsewhere, and the successes achieved by the Kremlin without military force can be seen today by every person without batting an eye. As far as the Czech Republic is concerned, a citizen of our country would have to be downright blind, deaf, and even more stupid not to notice how big a victory Putin celebrated in the recent parliamentary elections in Slovakia.
At the same time, not a single Russian tank had to cross the Slovak land border, and not a single Russian plane or missile of the same provenance appeared in the airspace. The country was turned towards Moscow by the Slovak voters themselves, who pushed the well-known company of Robert Fico to the top, and there was no doubt that he would go east.
The tendency to regard Putin and his assistants as primitive men, which I often encounter in the Czech public space, is misguided. Ever since the days of the KGB, the Russian state power had thoroughly studied all the companies it wanted to control.
In Slovakia, it used historically rooted nationalism, which can be seen in the Slavophile fusion with Russia. In the Czech Republic, he works with a variety of residents who long for “peace at work” and “peace”.
At the same time, Putin surprisingly did not lie in a recent TV interview when he said about the Kremlin’s strategy and tactics to achieve dominance in the West without using military means: “We do not intend to initiate any splits there. After all, they will do it themselves brilliantly. But without a doubt, we will strive to fulfill our interests.”
