Paranoia and conspiracy theories: the media found out how Putin's friends bowed him to war with Ukraine

According to journalists, in recent years the dictator has been surrounded by only the closest people who, with the help of a quick victory over neighbors, wanted to secure the future. The British edition of The Times has published a detailed overview of the reasons why Russian President Vladimir Putin dared to attack Ukraine. Talking with insiders, journalists came to the conclusion that he was pushed by only a few people whom he trusted and considers loyal friends.

After the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic, when Putin, fearing to get infected, hid in the bunker in Valdai and severely restricted the circle of his communication, it was easy for them to persuade him to this decision. They hurried to solve the "Ukrainian issue" as long as the dictator is still in power. He is ill or not, the president reached the elderly, therefore, it was necessary to put a point in confrontation with the west before his departure.

The sources of the newspaper were told that Vladimir Putin met with Mykola Patrushev at the beginning of his career at the KGB, where the first was a "gray mouse" and the second - a staring star. In the late 1990s, after Putin's unexpected take-off, they changed their places. However, the future president, having held the post of Secretary of the Security Council, did not forget his old Leningrad colleagues.

So Patrushev occupied the chair of the FSB director, who released after Putin and then - the Secretary of the Radbeza. It was Mykola Patrushev who played a key role in more persistent foreign policy and initiated the deployment of a repressive machine inside the country. At the same time, he always saw in the West an enemy who allegedly dreaming of taking possession of Russia's resources, was prone to paranoia and believed in conspiracy theory.

In 2020, he accused the West and, in particular, the United States of attacks on Russian statehood. In 2021 he agreed to the new national security strategy of the Russian Federation. It was given the right to "prevent or prevent unfriendly actions that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation", in particular abroad. This is how the legal plan of the coming invasion was prepared.

In the midst of the KOVid epidemic in April 2020, Vladimir Putin hid from all in his residence on Valdai. There he spent a lot of time alone, surrounded, by the definition of journalist Michael Zigar, ideologues and sub -labers. In these circumstances, he convinced himself that Russia should again dominate Ukraine, which became a front of the fight against the West. CIA Director Burns will say in two years that "Putin's appetite has grown at risk of as his grip increased.

that his fate is to restore the sphere of influence of Russia. " While in voluntary isolation, Vladimir Putin engaged in theorization, which resulted in the publication of his essay on Russia and Ukraine in July 2021. This "work", according to one of the high -ranking officials of Russian propagandists, has become the fruit of deep reflection of the dictator.

His companion in this process was an old friend and business partner, who headed the personal finances of the dictator, banker Yuri Kovalchuk. He abandoned all things for the sake of solitude with Putin and began to formulate the ideological manifesto of the philosophy of the future war. Kovalchuk has long been admired by the mystical nationalist works of Ivan Ilyin, an ideologist of Russian fascism in the 1930s.

These ideas were reflected in the Manifesto, after which all representatives of the political elite of Russia realized that "the salvation of the Russians of Ukraine from suppression" becomes a new general line of the party. In fact, this "historical essay" has called for weapons.

According to the source that previously worked in the Russian government, by the middle of the summer in a close circle of friends and advisers of Putin, a "critical mass" of thoughts about the need for a "decisive military blow" was formed. By August 2021, the heads of the power bloc Mykola Patrushev and the FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov made a "principle decision" on the need for invasion of Ukraine. Now it was only necessary to convince the President to provide an appropriate order.

Bortnikov is a loyal associate of Patrushev, who, like him, believes that Russian oppositionists are US agents. It was the FSB chairman who commanded the operation of poisoning of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Oleksandr Bortnikov is also an "ultra -jumper" and does not hide it. At a meeting of the Security Council of Russia on February 21, during which everyone was publicly signed under the decision to recognize the independence of the so -called LDNR, he played a prominent role.

The FSB director spoke about the "genocide" of the civilians of Donbass, his words have taken up his words. The next day, independence was approved by the State Duma. On the evening of February 23, Putin in his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo recorded the second in a few days an appeal to the Russians, saying that he had ordered the start of a "limited special military operation" Against Ukraine. The appeals were shown at 6 am on February 24, when the Russian troops began the war.