Ukrainian professional instructed residents of Latvia how one can defeat Russia

In response to him, this isn’t solely regarding expelling the occupiers. “Our long-term strategic aim is to make Russia a standard, civilized nation. That is our aim. We’d like this nation to be led by affordable individuals, resembling, for instance, Boris Nemtsov, and never by individuals like the present loopy Nazis,” argues Mr. Danilyuk.

“I do know that right here, particularly within the Baltics, there are concepts that if Russia had been divided, it might now not be an issue. However you ignore the truth that greater than 100 million of them are Russian. Even with out the Chechens and Dagestanis, Russia would nonetheless be an enormous nation with monumental army and industrial potential, with nuclear weapons and the whole lot else. Due to this fact, our strategic aim is for somebody to show Russia into a standard democratic nation.”

“There are two elementary issues we are able to do to cease this warfare. Clearly, it’s essential to inflict as a lot injury as attainable on the battlefield, since this shall be extra psychological and financial strain on Russian society, which is extraordinarily essential. Due to this fact, we should exceed, and for this the amount and construction of army help to Ukraine have to be modified, and there ought to be no restrictions, there have to be a significant plan developed by NATO, American and British generals that might be good for themselves. After which we should perceive that so long as Russia has extra revenue from oil gross sales, they’ll wage this warfare. They made twice as a lot cash in oil in 2023 as they did in 2022. However which means the best strategy to scale back Russia’s monetary energy and its capacity to finance this warfare is to cut back the value of oil to 45, perhaps 40 {dollars} a barrel.”