RT: Interview with President Molchanov on Current Events

Next day, Varennikov's party released the following public letter written by Sergei Varennikov as a response to the interview:

"I reject all claims made by Molchanov as simple politicking, and i deny that i did anything other than suggest an alternative plan. It was my duty to suggest a better option, not make sure the plan contains drama that he can profit from on the next elections.
In his recent interview, he also insinuated that i suggested something that would be 'inhumane'. While i will not be a traitor to the Motherland and give information about what the original plan or my alternative plan that was discussed was, i will say that Molochanov's claim is not true. What i did do is speak about an alternative, which got me re-assigned as a punishment that lead to my retirement. I refused to be a pawn in service of politics. I do not serve politics, i serve the Motherland. And everything i suggest is to benefit the Motherland, not a politician or his plans for re-election. 
If he however wanted to insinuate that i would use our nuclear potential without authorisation, and use that as a justification for my re-assignment, i think he needs to be reminded that i already had the Russian Strategic Forces under my command for many years. The biggest reason i am well known is because of my loyalty to the Motherland. Besides, there were far more troubling times, and i still did not do anything like that. The very reason i entered politics is because my dissagreenment with the decision making, which is now purely about political gains, reached a level where i can not do my duty as a soldier.Also, our nuclear potential is a deterrent, which is only to be used if no other options are present. GLA is nowhere near a force that would directly threaten the Russian Federation. The GLA is a cockroach, and the current politicians need them to be more than a cockroach in order to scare the people with them to be able to gain power. However, i do see the possibility of them becoming a real threat if politicking continues to be the primary goal of all decisions. While the GLA is a cockroach now, the current self-centered politicians will make them into a mutant with their careless disregard for our saety. What better proof is there from an attack on the Russian court in the capital city? A city in which terrorists were identified and neutralised before they even entered the Moscow metro for decades before the current administration.
I will not discuss this further. What i wanted with this is to reject all his claims and insinuations of the President as propaganda aimed to ensure the dominance of a corrupt political system. That system is not only endangering our people, our national interests and allies, but as we can see from the latest events, it is also a danger to itself. If left to politicking, the corrupt politicians will destroy themselves, and everyone else. We will not let them destroy the rest of the people with them.
That is why i will use this chance to officialy announce my candidacy for the upcoming elections. Everyone knows who i am and everyone knows our political program. I promise you all this: i will make sure the politicians keep their politicking in politics, and that everyone else is able to do their job the best they can."