Likewise, the war that broke out and the advance of the Kremlin troops has China as the “great winner”, he considered.
Montes assured that Putin is “tactical” and that he has no interest in prolonging this conflict, while stressing that “this is not Crimea.”
“It is going out in defense of a Ukrainian territory, inhabited mainly by Ukrainians and that supposes a cost for the ailing finances of the Kremlin”, fhey
From his point of view, Russia will carry out a “surgical” operation, which would not last beyond the weekend.
At that time, he will try to establish a new government in Kiev that is in line with his interests or at least consolidate his forces in the east.
Meanwhile, the journalist and specialist in relations with Russia, Hernando Kleimans, considered that Moscow has no interest in invading Ukraine and could use the model applied in Georgia in 2008, where the Russian military intervention in support of two separatist regions lasted just five days.
“There will be disarmament and dismantling of the Ukrainian military structure so that any warlike attitude of Kiev is sterilized”, Cleimans explained.
“NATO here is navigating between the appearance of firmness versus inaction, because it has finally been surprised,” Montes said.
Meanwhile, Heimans stressed that the Western sanctions that have been applied and will be applied are against specific people or banks, but that Russia “no longer does anything to it.”
“It is no longer 2014, when the sanctions began and Russia was not prepared. Today it is and it also has a small partner called China,” said the also historian, who specified that the majority of fuel deals made by Moscow are made in rubles or yuan.
Source: Ambito
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