"Servant to the king", but not "father to the soldiers"

Some rejoice, others gloat over the appointment of Shoigu as Minister of Defense. But even malicious comments on the topic that Shoigu is almost the only smart and reliable person in Putin’s gang, who patches up all the personnel holes, rather work on the positive image of “Sergek-kizhi ” savior of the earth." They are prophesying almost a new dictator of Russia to replace the tired and tired Putin. Behind all this entertaining Kremlinology, they do not pay attention to a simple but important fact for the situation: Shoigu is not an army man, he does not come from the armed forces (despite his rank army general), did not live in the barracks, did not rise from lieutenant to marshal, and, after all, did not fight as a “Servant to the Tsar,” but not a “father to the soldiers.”

The vicious - to please the "pacifists" from the Pentagon - tradition, introduced, by the way, by the "patriot" Putin, of appointing a civilian to the post of Minister of Defense with the appointment of Shoigu continues. The system is not capable of change. The regime built by the Kremlin rulers requires that each post has its own person. If the “bug of the tour” Shoigu is being sent to a dead end called “army reform,” it means that the regime still does not have “its own” among the top army generals. Not because the army men are conspirators and juntaists who will suddenly one day feel “offended for the state,” it’s just that the system is closed, it is divided, and it is not customary to give up a place in it to someone from the outside. And one of the meanings of Shoigu’s appointment as Minister of Defense is to maintain the status quo: the gang rules and trades, the army is silent and sells out.

There is nothing good in this appointment for the armed forces. Because “saving” and “fighting” are still different professions. The Russian army will only be saved by war - it doesn’t matter whether it’s world war or civil war.