Paul Goble
Staunton, Aug. 19 – To win in Ukraine, Moscow must convince Ukrainians they will be better off if they stop fighting Russian forces rather than continuing to resist, Abbas Gallyamov says; but the rising tide of repression inside the Russian Federation is leading more Ukrainians to be convinced that they have no option but to continue to fight on.
The former Putin speech writer who is now an outspoken critic of the Kremlin leader says this is an aspect of Putin’s domestic repression that is rarely discussed but is increasingly talked about (t.me/abbasgallyamovpolitics/10986 reposted at echofm.online/opinions/izbivaya-bezzashhitnyh-rossiyan-putinskie-siloviki-ukreplyayut-reshimost-ukrainczev).
Every new act of repression by the Putin regime against the population of the Russian Federation gives ever more Ukrainians ever more determination to fight on both because it shows what Russia is like and what their own fate would be if they fail to hold off and defeat the Russian invasion.
Thus, Gallyamov says, “by beating up defenseless Russians at home, Putin’s security forces are strengthening the determination of Ukrainians to fight on,” a pattern that has become “the strange dialectic of this war” and one that may even decide not just the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine but the fate of Russia itself.
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