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Expert: Moscow relies on the psychological effect with drones
With his wave of attack on Ukraine, Moscow pursues a strategic goal, according to the expert Mölling. But there is a great weakness in it.
Russia has been attacking Ukraine massively with drones for weeks. According to political scientist Christian Mölling, President Vladimir Putin pursues a strategic goal. “It’s about the psychological effect,” says the security expert from the Brussels Thinktank “European Policy Center” in star– “The Location -International”. This should be broken by the Ukrainians’ resistance: “It is believed that this psychological effect can actually be decisive.”
Moscow only knows violence as an instrument
But this reveals a great weakness of Moscow. “Russian leadership only knows violence as an instrument of control.” Otherwise, she had nothing else on offer and experience that violence and intimidation work with her own population.
Mölling believes that this approach will not work for the Ukrainians. The story shows that strategic bomber campaigns have never broken the resistance of the population. “Sometimes you even have the opposite effect that people say: we don’t let ourselves be killed.”
“This is a kind of helplessness”
His conclusion: “This is a kind of helplessness, a surplus, because you want to show your own people to try to set all levers in motion to suppress Ukraine.”
In the podcast, Mölling also comments on rumors that Moscow is planning an even bigger offensive.
Source: Stern
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