Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov stated the collapse of civil peace in the United States after the storming of the Capitol supporters of the President Donald Trump . He wrote about this in Telegram -channel.
At the same time, this process was launched not by Republicans, but by participants in the Black Lives Matter protests (BLM, “Black Lives Are Important”), which broke out throughout the country at the end of May 2020. “And the end of the civil world, expressed in an unprecedented in scope and sharpness split in society, is a qualitatively new state of America today,” the parliamentarian said.
According to him, the riots in Washington cannot be considered an attempt at a coup d’etat or the eve of a civil war. “The demonstrators did not have weapons, there were no leaders, there was no action program, they were not supported by any part of the special services, or the security forces, not even a single political force and not a single Republican politician,” Pushkov said. However, the incident was still illegal, he added.
In addition, these events dealt “a crushing blow to the power claiming world leadership,” the senator noted in another publication .
Earlier, Pushkov asserted that in case of victory of a democrat Joe Biden In the US presidential elections, the Cold War with Russia may enter an intensive phase. According to his forecasts, the ideological element will increase under the democrats, which will entail an attack on Moscow on human rights and the situation of minorities. The Biden administration will try to rally around itself the countries of Europe and a number of other states, using for this their mobilization on anti-Russian soil.
On January 6, Republican protesters stormed the Capitol building and surrounded the Senate Hall. The Senate and the House of Representatives interrupted a meeting at which it was planned to approve the results of the last elections. According to this data, Biden won the presidential election. During the protests, four people were killed and the police detained nearly 70 rioters.