Guest of the Morning of CNEWS this Friday, May 13, Alain Bauer, professor at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, estimated on the war in Ukraine that “Russia cannot lose, and it cannot win”
To the question “in the end, who wins the Russian-Ukrainian conflict?”, Alain Bauer’s answer is clear: “no one”. According to the professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, “Russia cannot lose and it cannot win”.
The situation would be much more complex than a victory or a defeat on one side or the other. “The problem is cold war, burning peace. A permanent guerrilla system, with points of fixation: a small movement in Transnistria, in Abkhazia, an explosion here, a large demonstration in Moldova to show that we must not laugh.
“Putin wants a pure Russia”
According to Alain Bauer, “whatever the leaders of the Kremlin, they all agree on this line: President Putin, the head of the National Security Council Patrushev, the entire Russian elite”.
The professor of applied criminology explained that this is a clear will of the Russian powers. “Putin says it himself, that [lui] purifies Russia. All the dissident elements, all those who disagree, the westernized, leave, even the oligarchs, get the hell out of here, we don’t need you anymore”.
It is therefore a conflict that goes beyond the conquest of territory, but a policy of eugenics: “In reality, [ils] want a pure, Slavo-Orthodox-Russian, imperial Russia in the sense of the organization of the system”.
“Whether Putin dies or does not die will not change anything”
Likewise, Alain Bauer asserts that it is “an obsessive policy”, and that “the fact that Putin leaves or does not go away, that he dies or does not die, will not change nothing to the imperial policy of Russia”.
The Russian leaders would also be inspired by the history of their country, “which refers to Catherine II or Peter I the Great”, by recreating “a formidable narrative on the subject”. Therefore, the absence of Putin or the elites at the head of the nation would not change anything.
On the follow-up to be considered for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Alain Bauer is hardly optimistic. “We are in a long, slow, complicated process, high intensity for what we are experiencing and long intensity for what we are going to experience”.
During a meeting held this Thursday, May 12 and devoted to economic issues, Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the country’s economic policy and considered that Western countries “are dealing a much harder blow to their own national interests. , to their own economies and to the prosperity of their own citizens.