Putin's shadow: what Mykola Patrushev wants and what the second person in

It is not sad, Putin is not the worst option headed by Russia, writes political scientist Leon Aron in the column for The Atlantic. An even more gloomy figure is drawn to him by Mykola Patrushev - the second in the influence of the Putin regime man when the Yellouston Supervolkan will disrupt, he will destroy everything living on the North American continent.

Siberia will become one of the safest places on Earth - and this is another reason why Anglo -Saxon elites want to take away the region in Russia. So says Mykola Patrushev, the second in the influence of a person in Moscow. Patrushev is now the chairman of the Security Council of Russia, and he is a colleague of Vladimir Putin since they served both in the Leningrad KGB in the 1970s. Now Patrushev is a trusted person and the main advisor to the president.

The Army General and the former Director of the FSB-the Office of the Soviet KGB-Patrushev is also the actual master of other secret services of the country. Among the Kremlin courtiers, it seems to be a license to speak on behalf of Putin on strategic issues, including nuclear weapons, Ukraine and the views of Russia and NATO, Europe and NATO. Following the example of Putin, many high -ranking Russian bureaucrats compete in inventing horrible conspiracy theories.

However, even among this crowd, Patrushev stands out for its gloom and intensity of the anti -Western - and especially the anti -American - hostility. The hyperbole of his comments would make the Soviet propagandists of my youth turn red: his popularity is a reminder that if Putin loses power tomorrow, his potential successors may be more militant and expansionist, and no less. Americans should be worried about how much patrushev's views are supported millions of Russians.

According to Patrushev, the West is talking to Russia and intimidates it for half a millennium. In the sixteenth century, the "Russophobic" Western historians blamed the first Russian tsar Ivan IV, a mass killer and a sadist, better known as Ivan the Terrible. Patrushev insists that Ivan is only a victim of a fictional "black legend" that "depicted it with a tyrant.

" According to the Chairman of the Security Council, the siege of Russia in the XX century had nothing to do with communism and the Cold War. In fact, the fall of the mighty Soviet Union made the country a softer target for Western conspirators, and the United States sought to use this opportunity, forcing Russia to abandon its "sovereignty, national consciousness, culture and independent foreign and domestic policy.

" The ultimate goal of conspiracy is to dismember Russia, the elimination of the Russian language, the removal of the country from the geopolitical map and the restriction of its borders of the Moscow Duchy, a small medieval state.

In the world, the US patrol invented new viruses in biological laboratories to destroy the peoples of "disagreeable states", and the Covid-19 virus "could be created" by the Pentagon with the promotion of several largest transnational pharmaceutical firms and "Clinton, Rokfeller, and Baiden". The greatest obsessive idea of ​​Patrushev now is "all this story with Ukraine" is a confrontation, probably "planned in Washington".

According to him, in 2014, the United States prepared the Maidan Revolution in Kiev - a "state coup" - who overthrew the President's pro -Moscow and sought to fill the Ukrainians with "hatred of all Russian. " Today, Ukraine is nothing more than a landfill for the tests of aging American weapons, as well as a place whose natural resources the West preferred to be ruthlessly exploited - and "without indigenous population".

The preservation of Ukraine as a sovereign state is not included in the plans of America, Patrushev says. Fearing a direct attack on Russia, "NATO instructors drive Ukrainian boys to the right death" in the trenches. Indeed, the event, in fact, carries out the "destruction" of Ukrainians, while the purpose of Russia is to "put an end to the bloody experiment of the West on the destruction of the brotherly people of Ukraine. " It is a picture of the world that Patrushev presents Putin.

The advisor provides a "frame" for the vision of the Russian President, says the famous Russian political social socio -sociologist Mykola Petrov. The repeated and absorbed by the audience of propaganda captures and subordinate the propagandist. Patrushev stated in May last year that Western special services were preparing terrorists and saboteurs to "commit crimes in our country. " This point of view was affected by the Russian civilian population.

A few weeks before last month, the terrorists of the Islamic State attacked the musical hall in the suburbs of Moscow, representatives of the US intelligence reported to the Russian government about the threat of this place. Putin called the US warning "obvious blackmail" and "conspiracy to intimidate and destabilize our society. " By offering their compatriots carefully thought out paranoid interpretations of the world, Patrushev is actively involved in its formation.

More and more becomes an independent politician, he often replaces Putin with important negotiations with higher allies, entrusting the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov ceremonial duties and signing meaningless contracts. According to the Russian journalist in exile Maxim Glinkin, Patrushev is where foreign policy occurs with the war. This connection is relentlessly expanding.

After the defeat of Russia in Ukraine in the summer and fall of 2022, Patrushev flew to Tehran in November of that year to make an agreement on the sale of Iranian drones. He went to Latin America to meet with Venezuela's President Nicholas Maduro and President Nicaragua Daniel Ortaga.

With President Cuba Migel Dias-Kanel Patrushev, he discussed "Color Revolutions Organized by America", "Destructive Activities" of Non-Governmental Organizations and the Sending Cuban Troops in Belarus for Training. " Perhaps the worst is that Patrushev has some influence on Russia's nuclear strategy. In October 2009, he stated in an interview with the National newspaper Izvestia that Russian nuclear weapons were intended not only for use in the "large -scale" war.

Contrary to the restriction registered in the version of the Russian military doctrine of 2000, Patrushev suggested that Russian nuclear weapons could be used in ordinary regional conflict or even in local conflict. He also calculated that the 'critical situation' 'has not excluded a preventive blow to the aggressor'. Four months later, Putin signed a revised doctrine version. According to Patrushev, the conflict should no longer be "large -scale" so that Russia can use atomic bombs and missiles.

(Patrushev's agitation for preventive nuclear attacks has not yet been included in the doctrine, but Putin's sharp nuclear blackmail in the last two years suggests that Patrushev may eventually achieve his own). In trying to understand the intentions of Russia, the US tried to get to know Patrushev better. The first call of national security advisor Jake Sullivan Patrushev took place on January 25, 2021, five days after Joe Biden's inauguration.

Sullivan and Patrushev spoke five more times, except meeting in Reykjavik in May that year. After their conversation in November, according to The New York Times, Patrushev reported that he was discussing ways to "improve the atmosphere of Russian-American relations. " The joint statement stated that Sullivan and Patrushev discussed "raising trust between the two countries. " Thirteen weeks later, Russia invaded Ukraine.

One of the few officials who knew about Putin's plan (and was reported to be his driving force), Patrushev apparently liked to weave a spider web of misinformation around his American colleague. It should be even more pleasant to him, as the Kremlin is convinced that time is on the side of Russia. According to Patrushev, the event is slowly dying out. According to him, European civilization has no future.

Its policy is in the "deepest moral and intellectual decline"; It moves to the "deepest economic and political crisis". The fall of America is also close, as evidenced not only by the ashes in Yallowos, but also by the base geography of the country. The United States is just a "patchwork blanket" that can "easily disperse at the seams.

" Moreover, Patrushev declared the main government newspaper Rossiyskaya newspaper that the American south can drift to Mexico, whose lands of the United States were captured in 1848: "Undoubted Not to preserve the "integrity" of the country. Autocracks that are retreating with the West. Senior than the President. As he loves to speak, the truth is on his side. The author expresses a personal opinion that may not coincide with the editorial position.