Putin wants to keep his dictatorship
A mercenary who paid for a coup
Caught in the Korean public sector
Interested groups must be eliminated
There must be quite a few people who felt a chill in their spine at the news of the coup in Russia. Kim Jong-un would have been surprised, as well as Syria’s Assad and Venezuela’s Maduro. There is no news more shocking to a dictator than a coup.
The subject of the coup was a mercenary. It is a group that fights for money. It is different from the regular army that goes to war to protect the motherland or to gain peace.
The Wagner Group, a mercenary group, is said to have recruited imprisoned prisoners, including vicious criminals, recruited third-world fighters such as Syria, or even participated in battles under the influence of drugs. It is unreasonable to demand values such as ‘patriotism’ or ‘sense of duty’ from them. It is natural for them to cause a coup if they do not receive the money.
Prigogine, the head of the Wagner Group, spent nearly 10 years in prison for various crimes. Since then, he has been in Putin’s eyes, and has played the role of a ‘dark servant’ such as manipulating public opinion. The Russian government has denied any connection with the Wagner Group. But why did Putin put the ‘dark servant’ at the forefront of the war in Ukraine that the whole world is paying attention to?
This war had no justification for the Russian people to fight for their lives. As the war, which was thought to end soon, would have been paid and filled with mercenaries. There is a tally that 7,000 people in the Wagner group alone were killed in the war in Ukraine. In a word, Putin’s desire for war without justification brought in mercenaries, and as he waged war as mercenaries driven by money, he eventually led to a counterattack called a coup d’état. It is unreasonable to carry out a war on which the fate of the nation depends on the mercenary mechanism, which is a system of privilege.
Is this really just a Russian problem? Even in the public sector of our society, the mechanism of interest is pervasive. The National Assembly, the government, and even public corporations are entrenched in a group of mercenaries who are obsessed with interests.
It was revealed that Rep. Kim Nam-guk secretly traded coins at the site of the Judiciary and Judiciary Committee hearing related to the Itaewon disaster, where the Democratic Party was all-out. Before that, he also participated in the legislation related to the game coin he invested in. As a member of the National Assembly, isn’t it more frantic about the interests of coin investment than public status? The concession cartel that appears in the Daejang-dong case also has a number of people in the public sector, such as judges, members of the National Assembly, and local public officials. Prosecutor Park Young-soo made a name for himself as a special prosecutor who impeached the president. However, if you look at his recent actions, he even acts as a broker, regardless of industry or ideology, and has been named in all kinds of cases. Even these days, whenever an issue arises in the political world, the name of a violent organization goes up and down. Gangsters, like Russian mercenaries, are parasitic forces in the ecosystem of interests through violence and illegality. ‘Putin’s mercenaries’ stand up and take advantage of the public good for society and the country. Those who have no patriotism or sense of duty, but want to seize power, invite ‘functional’ mercenaries like Putin to pollute society.
‘Putin’s mercenaries’ are also good at evading taxes. As a result of an audit of government subsidies of 6.8 trillion won paid by the government to non-profit private organizations over the past three years, 31.4 billion won in illegal receipts and receipts were found. Interest groups disguised as civic groups are no different from mercenaries.
They use mercenaries because they are unjust, and become more unjust due to the mercenary’s insolence, and in the end, they have no choice but to rely more and more on mercenaries. Such ‘Putin’s vicious cycle’ is not only Putin’s concern.
Leftist political parties in South Korea made many mistakes that undermined the foundation of the Republic of Korea by being scolded by North Korea, ignored by China, and dragged into labor unions. Even if it turns out to be a mistake years later, they cannot admit it. This is because they are still dependent on ‘Putin’s mercenaries’ such as labor unions and pro-North Korea groups. It is similar to the dilemma that right-wing parties in the late 20th century were dragged into because they were unable to escape the decades-long fetters of military dictatorship.
Putin created an ecosystem of interests for dictatorship, and then suffered a coup. The ecosystem of interests in our society will also turn a gun on its owner someday. Now is the time when we need a leader who can quickly uproot it.
[김선걸 부국장]
#매경포럼 #Putins #mercenaries
2023-07-03 08:22:47
