Does Russia Want a World War?

By Howard Bloom

A hopeful story in Bloomberg News November 20 proclaimed that “Kremlin Insiders [are] Alarmed Over [the] Growing Toll of Putin’s War in Ukraine.”

The subtitle revealed that “Some in the [Russian] elite fear the invasion was a catastrophic mistake.”

All of this was just what we wanted to hear — that Putin’s ghastly war is failing and that Putin himself is in danger of losing power. In fact, other publications reported on the Bloomberg story and headlined their stories with exactly that twist — that Putin is in danger of being kicked out of the Kremlin.

But this is not true. Outlets like Fox News and Britain’s the Daily Mail overlooked the last phrase in the headline: “the Russian president won’t relent and is in no danger of losing power.” Let me repeat that. Putin, said Bloomberg, is in no danger of losing power. And he’s not going to stop his war in the Ukraine.

In fact, the Austrian Chancellor, Charles Nehammer, met with Putin the weekend of April 16thand revealed something astounding: Putin “believes he is winning the war.”

Why is Vladimir Putin in no danger of being shoved out of power? Because, according to political consultant Tatiana Stanovaya, he cultivates public opinion and uses the support of the masses to control his political elite.