Putin points to 'structural flaws' of Western elites
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the rise of the far right in Europe — including the victory won in a state election in Germany — is the result of systemic errors accumulated by the so-called globalists of the West.
According to the Russian leader, this scenario did not arise by chance, but reflects a series of misguided decisions taken by sectors that considered themselves above any questioning.
Criticism of the supposed infallibility of elites
Putin said that Western elites came to believe that everything was permitted to them and that they made no mistakes. For him, this excessive self-confidence opened space for the advance of radical political forces in various European countries.
- The Russian president described the situation as the consequence of a chain of errors
- He blamed the globalists for not admitting failures
- The victory of the radical right in Germany was cited as an example of this process
Kremlin's political reading
Putin's remarks add to a series of recent statements in which the Kremlin seeks to associate the West's political instability with internal governance problems and the elites' loss of connection with the population.
For Moscow, the phenomenon is not isolated: it is a broader movement that has been repeating itself in different European elections and that, in the Russian government's assessment, tends to intensify as long as current leaders do not revise their positions.