Vladimir Putin will lose this war “eventually”, is convinced a former senior adviser in Foreign Affairs for Stephen Harper who met the Russian president.
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“Mr. Putin has just recreated a Vietnam for him or an Afghanistan of 1979. He will eventually lose,” said Ross O’Connor in an interview with LCN.
Although this defeat might come in a year or in five years, there is no doubt, according to him.
“The Ukrainians are fighting until the end so he will lose either economically, because he will no longer have the means to intervene in Ukraine, or maybe he will simply lose by force of circumstance militarily, but he will eventually lose,” he said.
The former senior adviser explains that the Russian president is, according to him, “all in”.
“He’s going to go for broke, and his fate, I believe, is tied to the fate of this mission. So for him, I think he’s ready to go all the way. He is ready to go until the end and he is even ready to sacrifice his presidency because that is perhaps what will happen, ”says Mr. O’Connor.
Ross O’Connor is of the opinion that Vladimir Putin’s goal is to form a shield with the countries surrounding Russia.
“Mr. Putin, I believe, is recreating the kind of dream of his hero, Peter the Great, who wanted to establish a kind of shield that protects Russia from a possible Hitler or a possible Napoleon,” he says. .
This objective might ensure that the Russian president might come to be interested in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, believes the former adviser.
“I think he wants to recreate the Old Shield, which goes through Ukraine. He already has Belarus and probably he would like to have the Baltic countries to recreate the full shield, ”he analyzes.
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Mr. O’Connor had the opportunity to observe Vladimir Putin up close during meetings between Canada and Russia.
His observation is that the Russian president is “an enigmatic character”.
“He is enigmatic, he is a kind of sphinx. It’s on purpose, he wants to give the impression that he knows something more than you and that he will be able to beat you, ”he says.
For him, there is no doubt that Mr Putin is “a real dictator” and that he seeks to show that he is in control when he is in a room in the company of other people.
“He tries to establish himself as the dominant being, the dominant male, the dominant man in the room. He wants to give the impression of being the Alpha in the room and that he knows something regarding it,” reports Mr. O’Connor.
