"I will make sure they will bear responsibility for it"

A terse pledge of retribution and accountability, the line marries the moral language of justice to the blunt force of personal power. The speaker asserts agency twice over: first by taking ownership of the process, “I will make sure”, and then by forecasting an unavoidable outcome, “they will bear responsibility.” The result is a statement that sounds judicial while feeling coercive, a deliberate conflation of rule-of-law rhetoric with the prerogatives of a warlord. It promises due reckoning without specifying procedure, forum, or standard of proof.

The ambiguity of “they” is strategic. It gathers a shifting constellation of adversaries, bureaucrats, generals, saboteurs, into a single target of blame, freeing the speaker to define culpability post hoc. That vagueness broadens the audience of fear while sharpening loyalty among followers who believe they have been sacrificed by indifferent elites. It becomes a populist oath, casting the speaker as tribune for frontline fighters and as scourge of a corrupt establishment.

Formally, the diction is cool and quasi-legal, “bear responsibility” rather than “pay” or “suffer”, but the cadence is martial and menacing. The certainty of the future tense denies the possibility of impunity and signals capacity to enforce consequences outside institutional channels. That claim was central to the speaker’s brand during the Russian war effort and his feud with defense leadership: a promise to convert grievances over incompetence and neglect into tangible, personal accountability.

At the same time, the statement is a negotiation. It pressures rivals by suggesting consequences if concessions are not made, and it reassures subordinates that their injuries will not be ignored. Yet it replaces systemic remedies with personalized retribution, reinforcing a political economy where justice hinges on proximity to force. The ethical tension is stark: the language of responsibility yoked to the practice of vendetta. Its power lies in that contradiction, formal restraint on the surface, naked threat underneath, effectively a compact sentence that channels grievance into resolve and turns accountability into a weapon.