https://www.quora.com/What-is-Vladimir-Putins-overarching-foreign-and-domestic-grand-vision-for-Russia/answer/Andrew-Gomez-276?prompt_topic_bio=1
I don’t think he has one. Contrary to western media’s grandiose image of him as this evil mastermind dictator, Putin is defined by his lack of grand vision rather than its excess.
He is a moderate dictator who reacts rather pre-empts. He let the maidan revolution happen in Ukraine and lost Russia its most valuable partner. In 20 years he has failed to reunite Belarus with Russia.
Belarus and Ukraine are integral parts of the Russian empire and by reuniting them with Russia, it would again be a great power. It would have a white population of some 180 million or more. The largest or second largest in the world determining on whether you count Jews as white.
In 20 years he has failed to make any progress towards that end. If anything, he has lost Ukraine. Sure he has taken three vital Ukrainian provinces and stripped it off a lot of population and GDP,but Ukraine is no longer an ally. It has a CIA-Soros sponsored government fully hostile to Russia.
The only way to ever reunite with Ukraine is now to conquer it militarily. The opportunity for that is highly likely in the near future as the US rapidly declines due to demographics and cultural revolution. But still, the loss Ukraine was a massive blunder.
Syria and Libya too are reactions from Putin. He intervened in Syria to prevent the West from opening a pipeline from Saudi Arabia through Syria to Europe. This would be catastrophic for Russia’s energy exports. Same with Libya, he intervened in order to gain a toehold on the Mediterranean.
Just last year the US attempted a color revolution in Belarus. All this demonstrates Putin’s lack of pre-emptive action.
As for his motives, they are vague. He seems to be interested in preserving his own throne, protecting his friends and preserving Russia’s interests. Its one of the good aspects of military-intelligence based dictatorships in contrast to western style plutocracies. The fates of the elite are more less tied to the success of their country.
The American plutocratic rulers like Soros, Gates or Bezos aren’t bound to America. They could move their business elsewhere at any time. They are internationalist agents and their power comes from wealth. Thus they have no obligation to better any country and every incentive to leech it dry.
In a dictatorship like Russia or China however, the elite’s power comes from the state. The stronger the state is, the more power they command. Putin doesn’t even need billions as in a sense, he OWNS Russia itself.
He has done many admirable things, he’s transformed Russia into a middle class country. Its the largest economy in Europe now in terms of PPP. For an autarkic country like Russia, GDP in terms of PPP is what matters. They practically make everything they need.
He has revitalized the Russian military, but this too was in reaction to its lackluster performance in Georgia.
He’s no Russian nationalist, for he has jailed hundreds of Russian nationalists. But he’s no anti-white leftist either, for he also jails and punishes Islamists. He does seem to have a sympathy for the Russian people. He hasn’t imported massive amounts of migrants, the central Asian ‘’immigrants’’ are almost all seasonal guest workers. And he has tried to some moderate success in raising Russia’s birth rate.
He has also overseen a revitalization of the Orthodox church. Sure, young people don’t attend it much but his patronage has greatly helped the faith. Highly conservative Christians have vastly higher birth rates than secular Russians and will most likely take over Russia in a 50–75 years.
He has taken a notable stance towards nationalism and self-sufficiency in the last 7 years. In the 2000s he attempted to more or less ally the west, do business and co-exist with them. His right hand man was the neo-liberal atlantacist Dimitry Medvedev. But this approach failed.
He kept out Wall street allied oligarchs like Berozovksy and Khodorkovsky out of power and ended the plunder of Russia by the wall streets goons. He nationalized Russian natural resources to a great degree and restored its sovereignty. I think Putin’s intention was to join the US-led liberal world order as a junior partner.
They would trade and co-operate with the west, while keeping state control of resources and having their own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It was willing to become a junior partner to the US but not a vassal like Britain or Canada.
The US rejected this, it more or less wanted total submission. Russia would privatize its resources and have a Rockefeller foundation run democracy just like the US. A complete puppet to the Davos crowd, just like Britain or America.
Putin rejected and the jihad against him started. There was a pro-western color revolution in Georgia, then in Ukraine and then in Armenia. They attempted multiple color revolutions in Russia but failed. It failed recently in Belarus as well.
Now I think he realizes that in order to safeguard his legacy and defend Russia, he has to be actively hostile to the US. He has to rebuild the Russian empire in order for it to become a viable player on the world stage.
He flirts with China but shies away from a full alliance as he knows that China could be an adversary in the long run, and has eyes on Central Asia.
Thus his soft turn towards more conservative and nationalist positions. Making Russians the state forming people, banning dual citizens from serving in the government and generous family loans to increase the Russian birth rate.
You can’t become powerful or oppose America with a liberal, effeminate population after all. But there are still many liberal and atlantacist elements in the Russian elite, and most of the Russian elites are boomers. They still largely run on outdated intellectual software.
They largely grew up during the cold war with boomerisms like anti racism, equality, feminism and so on.
If you notice, you’ll see that RT regularly calls the US racist and shows BLM as an example how ‘’oppressive’’ and ‘’white supremacist’’ America is. They are the real liberals and non-racist society. They also largely favor the left in the west, strongly supporting Bernie.
It shows that the KGB still thinks that the way to overthrow the US is through black and communist revolutions. They don’t realize that its 2021 and blacks and communists are essentially nobility in America and whites are 2nd class citizens.
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