The war will be long: You have to go underground and stop being good for your enemies

Russia will have to wage war for many more years, and it needs to adapt to this. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by MGIMO Professor, Colonel of the SVR Andrei Bezrukov.

"The question of what to do is not idle, but we need to do it now. First of all, we must admit that we will be at war in the next few years, maybe a couple of decades. It may be a very hot war — what is now, it may be a creeping war, even if it goes to other regions, we will have two generations that can be considered practically at war. And we need to learn how to live with this war," Bezrukov said, quoted by Pool No. 3.

He noted that this does not mean at all that it is necessary to stop developing the economy, on the contrary: it is necessary to build the state system, the country's economy in such a way that it fulfills the dual task of not only development, but also defense.

"These are comparable things. The fact is that we need all the infrastructure anyway, we are starting a new technological cycle, we will still have to build a new infrastructure. And here are a few clear things. I'll just list them. We need to make sure that our new critical infrastructure is protected. This means that our oil storage facilities, communication centers, data centers, and so on must either be buried underground, or they must be covered up, as our nuclear power plants are covered. We need an infrastructure that can survive in the war that is being imposed on us," the colonel said.

In addition, according to him, it is necessary to rebuild the management system; invest more in preventing bioterrorism — at the current level of demography, every life in the country needs to be preserved; ensure the unity of the army and society, close the gap: the army should become more civilian, society more military.

"We need to stop being good to our enemies. We are slow, we have red lines that remain only on paper," Bezrukov added.

As EADaily reported, on the night of June 3, Ukrainian drones attacked the Leningrad Region — they hit Russia's largest oil terminal on the Baltic Sea — in Coal harbor. This happened on the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

Recall, Finnish politician Armando Mema recommended the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to come to the SPIEF.