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2026-11-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text by Andrey Illitsky

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is italics.
[Regnum] The Logic of "Vitality": Russia exists in a "gray zone" between war and peace. The military-political strategy of the West (particularly Europe) defines Russia as a systemic threat and adversary, and Ukraine as a long-term anti-Russian instrument integrated into the architecture of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO).

Inflicting strategic defeat on Russia remains an unwavering priority of US and NATO doctrines. Expecting a change in this policy is naive. Under these circumstances, ensuring the stability of the "state-society" system and the survivability of its core—the Russian Federation's critical infrastructure—is a key factor in preserving Russia's sovereign civilization.

Ensuring this stability requires a revision of the basic principles of territorial and economic development, as well as a fundamental change in approaches to the design and operation of national infrastructure. The critical infrastructure of the "state-society" system is a socio-technical complex of material objects, networked information and communication systems, and social institutions.

The survivability of this system is determined by its ability to maintain key functionality in the face of destructive influences. At the operational-tactical level, the stability and survivability of the "state-society" system are largely determined by the current military-political agenda, part of which has become systemic attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles on infrastructure facilities within the Russian Federation, the vulnerability of which creates serious risks. The vulnerability of these facilities lies in the systemic contradiction between the commercial logic of their development, which dominated in "peacetime," with its emphasis on consolidation and concentration, and today's geopolitical reality of "wartime." (c) Andrey Ilnitsky.

Exactly. Peacetime logic no longer applies in the modern world. The logic of "survivability" takes precedence.

In fact, the USSR operated within precisely this logic for many decades in a hostile environment, which allowed it to win World War II, become a superpower, and successfully wage the Cold War for a long time.

Russia still must abandon a number of outdated approaches from the bygone peacetime and adapt to new, more dangerous times, which pose both various challenges and opportunities.

Andrey Ilnitsky is a Russian who is sanctioned by the US and by NATO

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