Why Putin is trying to escape from Moscow: a political strategist named the dictator’s fears

After the so-called “inauguration “Russian President Vladimir Putin went on a tour of “friendly” countries. First, the head of the Kremlin visited China, then flew to Belarus in the middle of the night and on Sunday, May 26, arrived in Uzbekistan.

All of Putin’s latest trips in fact, these are not exactly state visits that focus on deepening relations between countries. On 24 Channel, political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman named the main reason for the Russian dictator’s foreign tour.

What a dictator is afraid of

“Now Putin is leaving Moscow, because there he is undergoing a huge reform of the Ministry of Defense. Reform is to put it mildly, frankly, a revolution in the Ministry of Defense. Generals and officials are being imprisoned one after another. Of course, Putin expects that a riot could happen any day among the military, because now in the basements of the FSB there are high-ranking people who literally yesterday led entire armies,” said Sheitelman.

Former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was appointed secretary of the council security, and the chief of the general staff of the Russian army, Valery Gerasimov, is trying to move away from the huge cash flow in the amount of 110 billion dollars.

For that kind of money it’s not easy they kill, it’s for that kind of money that revolutions, coups d’état and the like happen,” noted the political strategist.

Pay attention, for example, to Putin’s visit to Belarus. He flew there at night, but no one makes state visits at 23:00. This format does not exist in the world, and then the next day a delegation consisting of Andrei Belousov and Sergei Lavrov flew to him.

Goal visit to Uzbekistan

One of the goals of foreign visits is to stay away from Moscow for now. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s riot occurred on June 23, 2023, but the preconditions arose in the fall of 2022. Now the situation is approximately the same – a rebellion is brewing, for which there are real reasons. in a sense, common, because we are all fighting for the attention of Uzbekistan, as the country that produces the most cotton in the world, suitable for the production of artillery shells,” Sheitelman noted.

He added that it was not in vain that Emmanuel Macron traveled to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan last summer. We don't have enough cotton to make gunpowder.

More about Putin's foreign visits

• The Russian president arrived in China late in the evening of May 15 for “informal talks” with Xi Jinping. Putin said that relations between Russia and China “are not directed against anyone,” but are supposedly “a factor of stability in the world.”
• The Russian dictator tried to please Xi Jinping, that he repeated the “catch phrase” about the eternal brotherhood between the Russians and the Chinese.
• And on the evening of May 23, Putin arrived on an official visit to the Belarusian capital Minsk, where he met with the self-proclaimed leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.