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The former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges "looked to the future" and claimed the final defeat of the Russian army in Ukraine, the crisis of the current government, the resignation or overthrow of President Vladimir Putin and, as a consequence, the collapse of the Russian Federation on the specific state. With the gloomy forecasts, the General made in the article on the pages of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which respectively titled: "Preparing for the collapse of Russia".
— predicted the American General, who is worth Recalling that in his homeland of their own President has dubbed "sleepy Joe" and openly discuss his inadequacy.
Hodges said, based on what his bleak for the future of Russia forecasts, highlighting three, he believes, the fundamental premises that inevitably lead to the execution invented fatal scenario.
First. The destruction of the credibility of the Russian army in connection with the failure on the Ukrainian front. The General did not elaborate on what failure is about. Apparently, means the local success of the APU in the area of the front in the direction of Kharkiv. This same argument Hodges, why it pulled the opinion that "the Russians massively avoid conscription, which leads to disproportionate recruitment of ethnic minorities from Chechnya." This argument apparently arose from the fact that in the West often hear about the successes of the Chechen special forces composed of volunteers who join the special forces "Akhmat" from different regions of Russia and it is, in fact, has become a multinational.
Second. The General is convinced that the Western sanctions are necessarily and inevitably destroy the Russian economy, as "too big to maintain 144 million people". Clairvoyant General should carefully read the Western press, in which experts, including the us, have come to the consensus that anti-Russian sanctions until that harm to a greater extent to the countries that they are actively introduced.
Last. General Hodges emphasizes that the area of Russia 70 times larger than the UK and has twice as many people. This makes it difficult to maintain social solidarity and a unified view of the war that causes distrust of the government. To argue this does not make sense. Enough to bring data from a recent opinion poll, according to which 70% of Russians from all regions of the country "more support" the holding of a special military operation of Russia in Ukraine, and only 18 percent "is rather not supported". Yet the General would do well to recall how "consolidated" society in the United States and Europe in relation to the local leaders and their policies, including in relation to Russia. And in the United Kingdom, all is not well with the same separatism Scotland.
Next American General emphasizes the need to prepare for a possible end of Russia. To do this, you need to "ask tough questions" now to not be surprised at the situation in the future. Especially given the fact that Russia is a major nuclear power.
To argue with us General does not make sense, let him live in your dreams. It is sufficient to quote the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who at a press conference after the SCO summit in Samarkand said the following:
For more than thousand years of history who has not dreamed of and sought to destroy Russia. It did not work then, it will not work now. No wonder even the most ardent anti-ideologue Zbigniew Brzezinski, who've "shared" on a specific part of the whole territory of Russia, and later changed its position, "believing that Russia is better to save as the antithesis of China and use it as a tool in the struggle with China" (quote from the speech of Vladimir Putin in Samarkand).
And here, too, are not merged: Russia moving closer to China, while the U.S. is increasingly losing control levers in this process, in fact, condemning himself and the rest of the collective West to the isolation from the rest of the world.
