Sanctions imposed by Western countries once morest Russia might cause the conflict to escalate and the war to cross Ukraine’s borders, believes former military intelligence officer Simon Leduc.
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The latter read, on the social network Telegram, a statement by the Vice-President of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, which he considers “very, very, very worrying”.
“For him, the sanctions are an aggression that threatens the Russian state on an existential level, and that constitutes a hybrid war, an economic war, and every country has the right to defend itself and Russia will use this right and the Russia is ready to go as far as a complete diplomatic break with certain countries,” reports Mr. Leduc.
The former military intelligence officer would therefore not be surprised “that we are heading towards a war, a complete diplomatic rupture”.
Simon Leduc is keen to “raise the importance of being afraid”.
“The Russians are not Taliban. The Russians have means that can harm our way of life,” he argues.
He gives an example of an intermediary means available to Russia to disrupt the countries that impose sanctions on them.
“There are electromagnetic pulse weapons, superEMPs and that, essentially, is a weapon which, in the atmosphere, will release waves which will reflect on the magnetic field of the atmosphere, which will take on a large periphery and which will flood the field with waves. Our electronic devices, which have antennas, pick up these waves. Electronic equipment is capable of sustaining it, but when it gets to 50,000 volts per square meter, the electronic device tends to waver and break. And there, the Russian weapons might go up to 250, 300, 350,000 volts per square meter and with a very strong distribution, which would mean that we would no longer have a communication system, no more electrical system, the cars would stop working, that’s in the best scenarios,” explains the specialist.
The latter recalls that this “remains theoretical”, since this type of weapon has never been used.
However, he is of the opinion that “we must be afraid of the Russians”.
