Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9202260
Vladimir Putin will spark a third world war if the Russian president is allowed to declare victory in Ukraine, according to the boss of the country’s biggest private employer.
Yuriy Ryzhenkov, chief executive of Metinvest, which ran the sprawling Azovstal steelworks that became the site of a relentless Russian assault at the start of the 2022 invasion, warned of the consequences of a Kremlin victory.
“I don’t believe that if Ukraine fails, Putin will stop,” he said in an interview ahead of the two year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. “The Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia are the next targets.”
He does not have to wait for victory in Ukraine. All he has to do if spark tensions and commit to taking some insignificant piece of a NATO country.
A place that is not important enough to throw nukes over.
And then see if NATO dares to respond.
The politicians will then debate if this is really good enough reason to go to war… Causing a fracture to be visible in the NATO all for one doctrine.
Once that is proven false… NATO will start to crumble.
Mf is a raptor at the electric fence. First Georgia… then Crimea. Dude… I remember feeling like I was in another world. Obama just watched and did nothing and the world went on, and I’m sitting there thinking, this is fucking precedent forever and it will continue. This headline is outdated by over 15 years.