2024-08-14
These are not the words of just any over-dramatic journalist but of Scott Ritter, possibly the most experienced and level-headed military and geopolitical analyst of our times.
A Russia-NATO war would become WW3 in short order. Mr Putin doesn't have much wriggle-room if he wishes to avoid that outcome.
Ukraine may be NATO's fig-leaf of plausible deniability but Russia knows what's going on.
"Ukraine is dead. Now the question is 'does the West want to die alongside it?' "
(NB: Original YT video no longer available - alternative video now featured below)
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