The Minister of Defense speaks to all Romanians in our country about one of the most important and pressing problems of the moment, more precisely about Vladimir Putin and his opinion vis-à-vis the possibility that the leader from the Kremlin will be removed from the position of President of Russia .
The Minister of Defense talks about the system in Russia and what it would entail to replace Vladimir Putin from power, but the chances of this happening in reality are small at the moment, and you can find more details below about his statements on edge of this topic.
"I think that the only possibility to end the political career, and what is happening today in Russia, is for the system represented by Putin to find a replacement, to change it. I don't think that at this moment we have one that the dictator can "give birth to", to have raised. But there are systems like this, authoritarian systems, as they built Putin, somewhat discreetly, so maybe they built another.
A strong system, such as the one in Russia, where politics controls authoritarian, where public opinion has no chance to express itself, you have seen arrests very quickly, you have seen the crimes that have been produced over time, can replace a dictator with a puppet, and to move on.
I do not expect (ed. I ask if Vladimir Putin is expected to change), from my point of view, seeing some compatibility between public opinion in Russia, studied by political scientists, sociologists, or journalists, and this action of war, seeing that at some point the action will surely decrease, Putin's special operation in Ukraine had the support of 80% of the population.
Before the operation, Putin had about 60% in the opinion polls, I would say that in fact this action, this unjust war against Ukraine, this crime against Ukraine, corresponds to a frustration of Russia, and of the Russians, because they lost the USSR, as an empire, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, it was seen in December, with the Fall of the Iron Curtain that it was a national mourning.
It was also visible in the polls, it was about intellectuals. Of course, it is the failure of an imperial mentality and isolation, because Russia, after all, beyond the great classical culture, has been isolated in recent years. He probably went through the disappointments of the transition from a socialist to a market economy, as happened in our countries."
