The former NATO secretary general is committed to sitting China at the negotiating table and believes that Putin will last a long time at the head of the Russian presidency
In the short term, Javier Solana, former NATO Secretary General and former EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is not optimistic and does not see an immediate way out of the war in Ukraine. The conflict goes on for a long time. “We will see people suffer, I do not see any important step to find a way that leads to a serious negotiation,” he said this Friday in Barcelona. In his opinion, the biggest problem Putin has is Kiev. The objective of his invasion of Ukraine is control of the capital, but Solana points out that Putin himself places enormous value on Kiev as even the capital of the great mother Russia and therefore cannot bomb it, because “not even the Russians they would forgive.” “We have to see how it comes out of there,” Solana pointed out this Friday at a conference organized by the employers’ association Fomento del Trabajo, in Barcelona.
For this reason, he believes it is necessary to seat China in the negotiation. Of course, he warns that a new world order may emerge from Chinese mediation, which would be a very hard blow for the years to come. After recalling the Sino-American pact that was made under the presidency of Richard Nixon to stop Russia, what worries him most at the moment is that Putin is trying to glimpse another triangle that has Russia and China as protagonists to the detriment of the United States. Joined. China, in his opinion, does not show signs of wanting to stop Putin and yes to the United States.
The war is going to be long and, in his opinion, Putin’s permanence in power, too, unless everything goes wrong in the invasion, which at this time he does not consider likely. The former NATO secretary general and former socialist minister has dealt and negotiated with Putin and has described him as a “difficult, very tough, unsympathetic and somewhat lonely” man. And he has assured that he does not forgive the West that in 2004, after the victory of Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian candidate for the presidency of Ukraine and after the poisoning of Victor Yuchenko, an electoral repetition was forced, which meant that the loyal candidate did not win. to Moscow. “That defeat, Putin has nailed it,” he has expressed. And also, he believes that it was “reckless” on the part of the US and NATO to offer in 2008 an invitation to join Ukraine. The subsequent intervention in Georgia, according to Solana, was a response from Putin.
In the long term, Solana bets on diplomacy and “reset” the world. She believes that it is possible, yes, she has clarified that he will not see it. If she doesn’t reset, she believes “we’re going to an unnecessary catastrophe.” Facing the NATO summit in June, Solana advocates that the new secretary general be a woman.
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Vladimir Putin, NATO, European Union (EU), Barcelona (Province), China, United States, Kiev, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, War in Ukraine
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