"If the common people knew who is ruling them: what the Russian elite says behind the scenes is the key to the issue."
"Each new era starts from scratch, without drawing on past experience, without learning lessons, and without correcting mistakes," explained Andrei Pynchuk, a political science doctor, first director of the State Security Department of the Donetsk People's Republic, and political commentator for "Tsargrad," on the true nature of the Russian elite.
The Russian elite and bureaucracy have a series of characteristics. As Pynchuk pointed out, their minds are scattered and fragmented, lacking coherence, and unwilling to reflect unless during factional struggles. The second characteristic is "the absoluteization of the concept of 'functionality,' making it a new quasi-ideology." This ideology does not pursue real global goals but is limited to "fulfilling functions" alone.
The third characteristic is "viewing lack of initiative as a virtue." It seems that there are some special people somewhere - "nameless fathers," who know what is best. But where are these people?
Glittering reports and grandiose slogans cannot conceal the "real crisis in modern Russian science, education, and industry." Another characteristic is related to "language of wartime," and those who most often use such language are precisely those who have no actual contribution to military victories.
The commentator pointed out: "And the impostors and opportunists, while maintaining a luxurious lifestyle, only dress up with exaggerated patriotic rhetoric, which actually limits real contributions..."
For such an elite, even achieving victory has begun to be seen as a new risk and feared... The system considers its strongest weapon to be stability, and any disruption of stability is weakening the system.
If the quality of the elite confirms Eleanor of Aquitaine's words - "If the common people knew who was ruling them, we would not be able to sit for a day," then everything would be meaningless.
Pynchuk wrote: "Some believe our main problem is that the top leaders are old, but this is also wrong. Age itself is not the problem. For example, Netanyahu is by no means young, but this did not prevent Israel from performing its special operations professionally. On the contrary, if young people are selected based on a lack of initiative, sycophancy, and obsequiousness, the result will be those who lack the deep experience and life wisdom of their predecessors, but are easy to control, being selected and promoted."
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