Chairman of the “All-Russian Officer’s Assembly” Colonel-General Leonid Grigorievich Ivashov wrote an Address to the President and citizens of the Russian Federation “Chanle of War”:
Today humanity lives in anticipation of war. And war is the inevitable human sacrifices, destruction, suffering of large masses of people, destruction of habitual lifestyles, violation of the systems of life of states and peoples.
The big war is a huge tragedy, whose serious crime is. It so happened that Russia was at the center of this threatening catastrophe. And perhaps this is the first time in her history.
Previously, Russia (USSR) waged forced (just) wars, and, as a rule, when there was no other way out, when the vital interests of the state and society were threatened.
And what threatens the existence of Russia itself today, and are there such threats? It can be argued that there are really threats – the country is on the verge of completing its history.
All vital areas, including demography, are steadily deteriorating, and the rate of extinction of the population is breaking world records. And degradation is systemic, and in any complex system, the destruction of one of the elements can lead to the collapse of the entire system.
And this, in our opinion, is the main threat to the Russian Federation. But this is a threat of an internal nature, based on the model of the state, the quality of power and the state of society.
And the reasons for its formation are internal: the inviability of the state model, complete incapacity and unprofessionalism of the system of power and management, passivity and disorganization of society. Any country does not live in this state for a long time.
As for external threats, they are certainly present. But, according to our expert assessment, they are not at the moment critical, directly threatening the existence of Russian statehood, its vital interests.
In general, strategic stability persists, nuclear weapons are under reliable control, NATO force groups are not increasing, there is no threatening activity.
Therefore, the situation escalated around Ukraine is, first of all, artificial, selfish in nature for some internal forces, including the Russian Federation.
As a result of the collapse of the USSR, in which Russia (Yeltsin) took a decisive part, Ukraine became an independent state, a member of the UN, and in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter has the right to individual and collective defense.
The leadership of the Russian Federation has not yet recognized the results of the referendum on the independence of the DPR and LPR, while at the official level more than once, including during the Minsk negotiation process, stressed the belonging of their territories and population to Ukraine.
It has also been repeatedly said at a high level about the desire to maintain normal relations with Kiev, without distinguishing it into special relations with the DPR and LPR.
The issue of genocide committed by Kiev in the south-eastern regions was not raised either in the UN or in the OSCE. Naturally, in order for Ukraine to remain a friendly neighbor for Russia, it was necessary for it to demonstrate the attractiveness of the Russian model of the state and the system of power.
But the Russian Federation has not become so, its development model and foreign policy mechanism of international cooperation repels almost all neighbors, and not only.
Russia’s acquisition of Crimea and Sevastopol and their non-recognition by the international community (and, therefore the vast majority of countries in the world still consider them belonging to Ukraine) convincingly shows the failure of Russian foreign policy, and the unattractiveness of domestic policy.
Attempts through an ultimatum and threats of use of force to “love” the Russian Federation and its leadership are meaningless and extremely dangerous.
The use of military force against Ukraine, firstly, will call into question the existence of Russia itself as a state; secondly, it will forever make Russians and Ukrainians deadly enemies. Thirdly, there will be thousands (tens of thousands) dead young, healthy children on the one hand, which will certainly affect the future demographic situation in our endangered countries.
On the battlefield, if this happens, Russian troops will face not only Ukrainian servicemen, among whom there will be many Russian guys, but also with servicemen and equipment of many NATO countries, and member states of the alliance will be obliged to declare war on Russia.
President of the Republic of Turkey R. Erdogan clearly stated on whose side Turkey will fight. And it can be assumed that two field armies and the Turkish fleet will be ordered to “liberate” Crimea and Sevastopol and possibly invade the Caucasus.
In addition, Russia will definitely be classified as countries threatening peace and international security, subject to the most severe sanctions, turn into an outcast of the world community, and is likely to be deprived of the status of an independent state.
The president and government cannot understand such consequences, the Ministry of Defense cannot, they are not so stupid.
The question arises: what are the true goals of provoking tension on the verge of war, and the possible unleashing of widespread hostilities? And what will be, says the number and combat composition of the groups of troops formed by the parties – at least one hundred thousand servicemen on each side. Russia, bare the eastern borders, is transferring connections to the borders of Ukraine.
In our opinion, the country’s leadership, realizing that it is not able to lead the country out of a systemic crisis, and this can lead to an uprising of the people and a change of power in the country, with the support of the oligarchate, corrupt officials, fed media and security forces, decided to intensify the political line for the final destruction of Russian statehood and the extermination of the country’s indigenous population.
And war is the means that will solve this problem in order to retain its anti-national power for a while and preserve the wealth looted from the people. We can’t assume any other explanation.
From the President of the Russian Federation, we are Russian officers, we demand to abandon the criminal policy of provoking war, in which the Russian Federation will be alone against the combined forces of the West, to create conditions for the implementation in practice of Art. 3 Constitutions of the Russian Federation and resign.
We appeal to all reserve and retired servicemen, Russian citizens with a recommendation to show vigilance, organization, support the requirements of the Council of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, actively oppose propaganda and the outbreak of war, prevent internal civil conflict with the use of military force.
