It’s not enough in any military confrontation. You cannot win a small skirmish, you cannot win especially large war like the one in Ukraine only being defensive.
Andrei Kozyrev: “It’s not enough in any military confrontation. You cannot win a small skirmish, you cannot win especially large war like…”
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Kozyrev discusses the necessity of offensive weapons for Ukraine's success.
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But to keep sanctions before Russia becomes a normal country, a country to which you can rely to follow the rules, very simple rules. Otherwise, it will repeat itself every two, three years down the road.
He will try to intimidate the West and imitate Ukrainians. And unfortunately, he kind of succeeds to have initiative, military initiative, while NATO seems to be too cautious to me.
He does not want to recognize it himself, I think. And, definitely, he does not want Russian people to understand what is happening.
The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military, but much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega yachts in Cyprus.