Vladimir Putin he might be ready to enter a “big war” once morest NATO before the first anniversary of his invasion on February 24 to restore the “Iron Curtain” following his country began planning a “new preemptive strike” on Ukraine.
The Russian president aims to invade both Ukraine and Moldova for good, and then subjugate Eastern Europe to re-establish a Cold War-style Iron Curtain across the continent, according to Professor Grigory Yudin.
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Putin sees “all of Eastern Europe as his fiefdom”Yudin said, professor at the Moscow School of Economic and Social Sciences, in an interview published by CivilNet on YouTube.
“We must free ourselves from the illusion that this is a war between Russia and Ukraine. from the point of view of leaders [del Kremlin]”Yudin said. “The Russian leadership does not believe that Ukraine exists. It is impossible to fight once morest what does not exist. [Para ellos] the war in Ukraine is really once morest the West.”
According to Yudin, Putin would be planning for NATO to be expelled from countries like Poland and Lithuania, which were once part of the USSR, or in its sphere of influence. Invading Moldova is also in the Russian plans, he said.
Predicting Putin’s preparation for a ‘big war’, he said: “They still can’t reach it because they are not technically ready. But Moldova is there [en los planes] without a doubt”.
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Yudin remarked that if the Russian leadership continues according to its scenario, “we will inevitably see war in all these territories [de Europa del Este], and possibly even beyond“.
It is a war that, he says, “was long considered inevitable by the Russian political and military leadership.”
In this sense, this week it was stated that Russia’s top brass are “appalled” by Putin’s demand to launch a new multiple military offensive in Ukraineand that they fear that this will lead to a massacre.
“The Army General Staff is terrified by Putin’s instructions”
Putin’s demand that his military supremo, General Valery Gerasimov, unleash “an assault in several directions at once” caused deep divisions in his high command, according to political analyst Valery Solovey.
“The Army General Staff is terrified by the instructions of the commander in chief. I am not exaggerating. They are horrified”said Solovey, a former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations, a training school for diplomats and spies.
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“They are afraid of losing the remaining armed forces in the massacre to which they are being dragged by order [de Putin]Solovey said, adding: “This offensive is planned for February.”
But he added that the top brass of the Russian general staff “They are afraid that they will not arrive on time, because Ukraine might get new, more dangerous, more modern, offensive weapons. [de Occidente].
“That’s why now it is the last chance to try to attack Ukraine, but not with the goal of winning” Dr. Solovey said. “This is very important to understand. Does not exist [más] such a goal at all. The goal is totally different: finish it in an honorable way.”
Russia’s humiliating situation with Ukraine might be the final tipping point needed to unleash a nuclear attack that kills millions of people, according to the warning from the Former British diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey, former director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Willasey-Wilsey said a new offensive by Putin might turn into global carnage if his army collapses or mutinies in the face of relentless Ukrainian resistance, setting off a doomsday scenario.
“There may still be some Russian soldiers who believe their president’s myth that Ukraine is a Nazi state, but they must increasingly ask themselves why they are enduring considerable risk and dire conditions“, wrote.
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In agreement with the versions of the experts, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the national security and defense council of Ukraine, said this week that Russia “It is preparing for maximum activation and they think that by the anniversary they should have some achievements.”
“It’s no secret that they are preparing for a new wave on February 24, as they themselves say,” he told Radio Svoboda.
Just a few days ago, the Kremlin denounced the “direct involvement” of the West in the conflict in Ukraine, following several European countries and the United States announced that they will deliver dozens of tanks to kyiv.
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“In Moscow, we consider this as a direct involvement in the conflict, and we see that [esta implicación] it grows”said the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
“It never occurs to any of the wretches to draw the following elementary conclusion: that the loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war might provoke a nuclear war,” said former President Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev bluntly warned that if Russia were defeated in Ukraine, it would trigger a nuclear war with the West.: “The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends. And this should be obvious to anyone,” he said.
What was the Iron Curtain?
The Cortina o Iron Curtain was the name given to the political, ideological and later military barrier that separated Western from Eastern Europe from the end of World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union.
The term is attributed to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in a 1946 speech said of communist countries: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended on the continent.”
At that time, the US, UK and the Soviets were still dividing Europe following the fall of Nazism.
But the negotiations, which began in good faith, gradually fell apart as Stalin worked to create a buffer zone of the Allied states of Eastern Europe to protect Russia from attacks from central Europe.
There was born the Western fear that the Soviets might become powerful enough to dominate the entire continent, which led to the creation of NATO in 1949 as an alliance to counter Soviet power.
Since then, trade, migration and communication between the two blocs have been severely restricted, giving rise to the Cold War, in which East and West competed in the development of nuclear weapons and in the conquest of space.
Although the east-west border was largely ideological, it included a number of physical borders, most notably the Berlin Wall that separated West Berlin from East Germany from 1961 until its fall in 1989.
The Iron Curtain began to fall in 1989 when Poland overthrew its communist government before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought it down completely.
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