Question: How soon can there be a political crisis in Russia which can also end the war? And how ready is Russian society for it? Is any unrest possible in Russia as a result of this crisis?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Kazakhstan Conference.
Well, certainly unrest is possible but not likely, for reasons I just explained that the Russian people feel trapped. They do not see what they can do as the people of Russia. This, of course, is because the Russian people were not willing to take advantage of the opportunity they had after the fall of the Soviet Union. We can give reasons for this, but it does not change the conditions. Unfortunately, right now, the only realistic or the most realistic scenario for political change in Russia is that there is a certain power elite that sees that the advantage they got out of having Putin in power has now been diminished to the point where it would be better for them if Putin was no longer in power.
There is the possibility that an aspiring power elite can unseat the established power elite. Unfortunately, this will not bring so much change for the people because the new power elite will want to maintain the same grip on power that the current power elite has, only with themselves in the decision-making positions. It will take, unfortunately, a long time before there is any real democratic changes. It is not impossible that there could be a switch in leadership that would be more democratically minded, but it will take time. And if you want to hold a vision for Russia, it is that Russia is set on a track towards becoming a democratic nation, which also means a civilized nation, where the kind of decisions you see that led to the war are not possible and where the kind of behavior that you see in Ukraine with attacking civilian targets, torture, rape, and so forth are not possible. But that is a more long-term prospect because that truly requires a shift in the collective consciousness towards greater respect for other people’s rights and a commitment to overcome the kind of brutality that, unfortunately, is very widespread in Russian society.
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