As of: February 6, 2024, 4:35 p.m
By: Patrick Mayer
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Moscow autocrat Vladimir Putin gives a speech in Russia with threats against the West.
He wants to mobilize the majority of the Russian population.
Tula – How far will this man really go?
Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin caused a stir with another martial speech in which he predicted a mobilization of large parts of the Russian population in the context of the Ukraine war.
According to Bild
, “99 percent of the population” is defending Russia in the fight against its “enemies,” Putin said
at the “Everything for Victory” event in the city of Tula, around 150 kilometers south of Moscow.
Putin said there was a “nationwide movement.”
The Russian leader “conjured up a comprehensive social and economic mobilization of Russia that was reminiscent of the total mobilization of the Soviet Union during the Second World War,” wrote the experts at the
Institute for the Study of War (ISW)
in an analysis of Putin’s speech.
Russia's ruler: Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin.
© IMAGO / ITAR-TASS
Vladimir Putin: Russian ruler speaks at “Everything for Victory” event
The title of the event, “All for Victory,” was “a Soviet-era slogan that Soviet authorities used, first during the Russian Civil War and then extensively during World War II, to promote the widespread mobilization of Soviet industry and society.” , said the analysts at the US think tank.
Is he only concerned with Ukraine, for which Germany is currently putting together a large arms package?
Or more, while the Norwegian commander, for example, is warning of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia?
With reference to “the total mobilization of the Soviet Union during the Second World War,” Putin wanted to “try to gauge domestic reactions and prepare the Russian public for a more comprehensive economic or military mobilization,” the
ISW
continued.
In his speech, the Kremlin ruler apparently alluded directly to the Western defense alliance NATO, which is currently preparing the major maneuver “Steadfast Defender 2024” under high pressure.
Putin is preparing the Russian public for a broader economic or military mobilization.
Institute for the Study of War (ISW), analysis from February 2nd
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“If we take our newest weapons, they are clearly superior to anything else.
This is an obvious fact.
“I’m referring to the missile technology, the tank equipment and everything that is used on the battlefield,” Putin said, according to
Bild
, referring to the NATO weapons that Ukraine is using against the Russian invasion, which violates international law.
Vladimir Putin: Moscow autocrat brags about Russian arms industry
He also boasted that Russia has over 6,000 defense companies with 3.5 million employees.
10,000 companies would also work as suppliers to the Russian defense industry.
In 2023 alone, more than 500,000 new jobs were added at Russian weapons manufacturers.
But apparently not everything in the arms industry is going according to his expectations.
At the beginning of February, the American news magazine
Newsweek
reported that Putin had at least twelve Russian rocket scientists imprisoned.
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