Putin's patience has been exhausted.
On March 16, Moscow time, after four negotiations, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the Federal Socio-Economic Assistance Conference and delivered a televised speech. In addition to expressing his latest views on the recent situation in Ukraine, Putin has also signed a number of documents on boosting the economy and ensuring people's livelihood and employment. In his speech, Putin launched a direct bombardment of some ugly things that have been put on the surface, which basically means that Putin no longer hopes for peace talks, but fights to the end.
The first was about military action, with Putin saying the army was moving forward but "has no intention of occupying Ukraine." This is basically consistent with the previous speculation from the outside world, Putin wants to subdue Ukraine, but will not kill it, Russia will never want Ukraine's territory, because this is equivalent to facing NATO, Russia will lose its sense of security. Now that the hammer is real, it feels particularly funny and ugly to look at zelenskiy's previous hiding in the interior of Ukraine as if he were about to be assassinated at any moment.
Putin also said that at the beginning of the conflict, Russia had asked the Ukrainian government not to intervene, but to withdraw its troops from the Donbass region, but the Ukrainian government apparently did not take it seriously. Therefore, in order to eliminate the threat from outside the Donbass and avoid the Donbass region becoming a new front, it is necessary to march to other provinces and cities in Ukraine, including Kiev.
The second is related to the biochemical laboratories of the United States, although the Russian side has not exposed any information on biological and chemical weapons, but the matter has basically been hammered, Putin said, Ukraine has a network of dozens of laboratories, under the guidance of the Pentagon and financial support to carry out military biological programs, including experiments with coronavirus, anthrax, cholera and African swine fever samples.
The Russian side is so adamant that it seems to have really grasped the exact evidence or the exact address of the laboratory, forcing the United States to admit it. However, the superpowers, as everyone knows, do not deny that it is not the style of the United States to turn black and white upside down, and want the whole world to recognize this matter, unless Russia releases evidence that is enough to directly cover the conclusive conclusion of this matter and let the United States argue irrefutable, otherwise it is completely impossible for the United States to admit this kind of thing.
Or, there is another possibility that Russia is threatening the United States with this, "If you continue to be a demon, I will send something beautiful to the whole world." "Of course, it is only speculation, after all, the United States has not shown any signs of remorse in the past two days, but has added billions of dollars of military aid to Ukraine."
The next topic is about the Russian economy, in foreign exchange, Europe and the United States and other countries have frozen almost $300 billion of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves, accounting for half of Russia's total foreign exchange reserves. Foreign exchange reserves, is a country's domestic currency in foreign banks, convenient for foreign transactions, and if it is frozen now, it is equivalent to the money temporarily all turned into waste paper, which cannot be transferred out, traded and executed financial trading operations.
Putin said, "The West's freezing of Russia's foreign exchange reserves is actually equivalent to declaring a default on Russia's debt." Now everyone knows that a country's foreign exchange reserves can be easily stolen. This statement is actually quite serious and straightforward, and it directly links this matter with the credibility of the country. If any country could freeze its foreign exchange reserves at any time on the grounds of political sanctions by other countries, who would dare to deposit money in foreign accounts? If this continues, will economic globalization still be operational?
Finally, regarding Russia and Ukraine, Putin bluntly said that the entanglement of interests behind it is blunt: "The West will not allow Russia's autonomy and will try to suppress and undermine the territorial integrity of [Russia], but the United States and its allies will not succeed." The Western 'Empire of Lies' is weak in the face of truth and justice. Russia will continue to stand by its original position for the whole world. ”
In addition, Putin also adopted the document "Several Measures of the Russian Federation to Ensure Socio-Economic Stability and Protect Citizens" at this meeting, which is an "emergency decision in wartime" made by Russia in the face of internal and external difficulties under sanctions.
Because of the economic blockade abroad, Russia was unable to trade with the world, domestic inflation was severe, the ruble was greatly devalued, and many people began to go shopping in the streets to prevent money from becoming less and less valuable in their hands. In response to these situations, Putin adjusted his policies step by step and promulgated a series of policies to maintain stability.
In short, at the same time that Russia is steadily eliminating the Ukrainian resistance, its own economic strength is also rapidly regressing, I am afraid that only this period of time, Russia's economic strength has regressed by nearly 10 years, which is Russia's "seven wounded fists", hurting others and hurting itself even more.
From what Putin said and did, it can be seen that Putin is basically ready to tear his face. Informing the public of economic preparations, including the decentralization of governments at all levels referred to in the "Several Measures", allowing them to take measures to rescue a wide variety of Russians who are currently in difficult living conditions, including cash subsidies when necessary, as well as paying close attention to the state of the labor market, paying attention to the retail prices of necessary supplies, medicines and medical equipment, and the market circulation, etc., is obviously to prepare for a protracted war.
Many people will say, hey, you have a problem with what you said, Putin is not a fool, the purpose of the United States is to delay time and drag down the Russian economy. At this time, Russia did not minimize its losses, struck a heavy blow at Ukraine, and knocked Kiev down at the fastest speed, but instead calculated and prepared for a protracted war.
Based on practical considerations, Ukraine cannot fight down quickly. How do you play if you hit it quickly? It must be a heavy firepower onslaught, a wash-in bombardment, leaving all the enemy's living forces alone. But the problem is that Russia, even sending troops into Ukraine, has begun to be criticized by the West, and if it wants to cause a large number of innocent casualties, I am afraid that even China cannot pretend to be deaf and dumb.
So now Russia's strategy to fight Ukraine is to "surround the capital with the periphery", to beat all around Kiev, and then to start a siege war with Kiev, at this time if the enemy army attacks from behind, the Russian army's encirclement will be impacted, so the Russian army must first knock down the rest of Ukraine, and then give those foreign "mercenaries" a few missiles, let them go back where they come from, control all the territory of Ukraine, and then start to surround Kiev.
Fighting Kiev is definitely the longest battle for the Russian army, but it may not be the most fierce one, and in the end it will depend on whether the current Ukrainian government can stand up to hunger - this siege war The Russian army is to cut off all the supplies of Kiev, and then surround them for several months, fire several cannons into the city every day, let them be physically and mentally devastated, and then they can not resist their surrender and talk about the conditions, then Russia can take the opportunity to propose "stop the process of entering Europe, recognize the independent status of the Donbass region, recognize the ownership of the Crimean region, De-militarization de-Nazismization" these demands.
Don't agree? Then go inside and be surrounded for some time. As for whether there will be resistance in the city... Please, it's not really possible to fight, let them honestly have more ways to go.
Therefore, the next situation may gradually become clear, in the economic sanctions are being dealt with, public opinion can not affect the unity of the Russians at all, the "mercenary corps" has also been directly scared back, Europe and the United States can only do to send some weapons and equipment to that side, but this matter with the siege will also become a luxury, the United States and the European Union do not agree to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine, this is really a donkey skill.