{"id":970,"date":"2026-06-04T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:38:50","slug":"putin-faces-rival-visions-of-war-and-peace-at-russias-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Putin faces rival visions of war and peace at Russia&#8217;s &#8216;Davos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 4 (Reuters) &#8211; President Vladimir Putin faced two rival outlines of Russia&#8217;s future as he hosted his premier annual investment conference with the war in Ukraine unabated.<\/div><div>Some participants at the glitzy St Petersburg International Economic \u200bForum said Russia should fight on and gird for global confrontation with the West.<\/div><div>Others highlighted the economic benefits to be reaped from ending a war that came \u200calmost to the forum&#8217;s doorstep when Ukrainian drones hit a St Petersburg oil terminal and naval base on Wednesday, sending smoke billowing over parts of the city.<\/div><div>The conflicting narratives illustrate the debate under way among political and business leaders over what the future should hold for Russia, and the domestic influences on Putin after more than four years of war in Ukraine.<\/div><h2>BALANCING RIVAL FACTIONS<\/h2><div>Putin, 73, has long ruled by balancing the views of different Kremlin factions \u200bvying for influence with the man who has been Russia&#8217;s paramount leader for the past quarter of a century.<\/div><div>Signs that the $3-trillion economy is stagnating as the war drags on with \u200bno end in sight have strengthened the arguments of some within the &#8220;elite&#8221; that the war should be ended and peace struck with the mediation \u2060of U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/div><div>But some nationalists see the war as merely the first stage of a much deeper global confrontation with what they say is a declining West that means years &#8211; \u200bor even decades &#8211; of possibly global war.<\/div><div>&#8220;We have to admit that we will be at war in the next few years, maybe for a couple of decades,&#8221; said Andrey Bezrukov, a former spy \u200barrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010 while living under a false identity in the United States.<\/div><div>&#8220;It may be a very hot war, it may be a creeping war. Even if it goes to other regions, we will have two generations that can be considered basically to be at war. And we need to learn how to live with this war,&#8221; Bezrukov said to applause in a packed hall.<\/div><div>Nationalists have said Russia \u200bmust get in shape or face potential collapse and destruction in what they see as an increasingly dangerous world.<\/div><div>Among ideas put forward by nationalists at the conference, often portrayed as Russia&#8217;s answer to \u200bthe World Economic Forum in Davos, were streamlining decision making, developing technology and changing the perception of the Russian army within Russian society.<\/div><h2>WEAPONS ON SHOW<\/h2><div>In pavilions once graced each year by financiers from Western companies \u200csuch as Goldman \u2060Sachs and Citi, drones and weapons were on show, while cyber companies advertised facial recognition technology and advanced cyber defensive programmes which utilise AI.<\/div><div>Russia controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory following Putin&#8217;s decision to send in tens of thousands of troops in February 2022, but its advances on the battlefield have slowed this year.<\/div><div>Russia has seized most of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine in fighting that began there in 2014 but has been unable to take the remaining part &#8211; amounting to less than 10% of Donbas.<\/div><div>Ukraine says it will not withdraw its forces from the part of \u200bDonbas it still holds and that it will \u200bnever recognise Russian sovereignty over Ukrainian territory \u2060Moscow has seized.<\/div><div>With stalemate at U.S.-brokered peace talks, the war has dragged on, and the Kremlin says the U.S. is now preoccupied by its war with Iran.<\/div><div>&#8220;Unfortunately, they are paying less attention,&#8221; said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.<\/div><div>Several prominent figures in Russia have tried in the past to warn \u200bPutin about the economic consequences of the war. Kirill Dmitriev, Russia&#8217;s point man in contacts with the Trump administration, has been the \u200bpotential economic benefits of a \u2060peace deal.<\/div><div>&#8220;The question is: does this war end or do we stare into a much tougher future?&#8221; one Russian participant told Reuters on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.<\/div><div>Putin says Moscow does not intend to attack NATO, whose member states&#8217; combined economies dwarf that of Russia even though it is the world&#8217;s biggest supplier of natural resources.<\/div><div>But ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, whose daughter Darya \u2060was killed \u200bin a 2022 car bomb that Moscow blamed on Ukraine, told reporters the war in Ukraine &#8220;will end either with \u200bRussia&#8217;s victory or it will never end.&#8221;<\/div><div>&#8220;We need to gather all our strength, gather all of our will and stop pretending that we are a peaceful country that goes off to barbecues or summer vacations,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>Dugin said Russia would \u200bnot attack the West. 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