Former Polish president suggests decreasing Russia’s inhabitants — RT World Information

The world won’t ever be secure so long as modern-day Russia exists, former Polish president Lech Walesa instructed French broadcaster LCI on Friday, claiming that Russia is “imperial” in nature and can at all times search to “preserve annexing peoples.”

Even when Western nations would assist Ukraine to win its ongoing battle with Moscow, they might nonetheless fail to make the world a safer place, Walesa argued, including the worldwide neighborhood would probably see one other battle involving Russia “in 5 years.” “In ten years, we’ll see one other Putin come up,” he added, referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who’s more and more portrayed as an autocratic strongman by Western officers and the media.

To keep away from such a improvement, the West “should drive [a] change of political system” in Russia, the previous Polish president believes. If it proves to be unimaginable, “organizing an rebellion” can be another choice, he mentioned.

Based on Walesa, Russia nonetheless has “60 peoples, who’ve been annexed like Ukrainians [are being annexed] at the moment.” It will be “essential to stir these peoples … to motion” to carry Russia’s inhabitants “again to lower than 50 million,” the previous president mentioned, pointing to a possible forceful disintegration of the modern-day Russia. Based on the newest inhabitants census held in 2021, Russia’s inhabitants at present quantities to round 147 million folks, the state statistical company, Rosstat, mentioned in April.

Walesa, who was a co-founder of the Solidarity motion that introduced down the socialist authorities in Poland, additionally argued that the West ought to have “introduced Russia down” however it will definitely fell for the final Soviet chief, Mikhail Gorbachev’s constructive picture and wasted its probability.

“We must always have introduced Russia down. However Gorbachev was too sensible. We mentioned to ourselves on the time: ‘There was Stalin, Brezhnev, however Gorbachev is good’,” Walesa mentioned, including that “it was our mistake then.” Based on the previous Polish chief, Russia was allowed to “wait out” the exhausting occasions and to “keep it up like they’ve achieved for hundreds of years and preserve annexing folks into their empire.”

The previous Polish president additionally defended NATO and EU growth by saying that, though the West has its personal pursuits and seeks to exert its affect and energy, it does so “in a democratic approach.”

“There are two programs now: … the democracies and NATO, which wish to increase however [do so] by democratic means, by looking for approval of the peoples, [and] … Russia and China, who’ve resorted to the outdated strategies of annexation,” he mentioned.

Walesa, who was president between 1990 and 1995, has just lately emerged as one in all Russia’s fiercest critics. In early February, even earlier than the beginning of the Russian navy motion in Ukraine, the previous Polish chief referred to as on the world to “mobilize” for an “speedy response” to Russia’s assault on Ukraine. At the moment, he mentioned an assault on Kiev by Russia ought to be adopted by “an assault on Moscow.”

Again in early February, Walesa nonetheless referred to as Russia “an ideal nation” that simply “has issues.” He additionally admitted that he “revered Putin very a lot and supported him.”