The former NATO secretary general does not believe that the Russian president will go further in his threat to resort to nuclear weapons
Former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana believes that Vladimir Putin “is restless, nervous and tense.” “I don’t know if he came from before, or is it really due to this situation, I don’t know if he expected it to be the way it is coming out, which has upset the Russian president a bit,” says the current president of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Meadow. This was stated by Solana in response to questions about Ukraine from informants at the presentation at the Ellas Crean Festival art gallery.
Solana does not believe that Putin escalates his nuclear threat. “The call for the use of the nuclear arsenal is a statement to mislead and to look the other way,” she said. “I don’t think the nuclear threat will increase in the next few days. It seems to me that this statement is to make more noise than anything else, but I don’t think there is any will to use the nuclear arsenal. It would be horrible », she insisted.
“We are experiencing a tragedy, as Ukraine is taken over by Russian forces. But we are also seeing very courageous activity from the Ukrainians. Even in Moscow some movement is detected, I will not say anti-Putin, but contrary to the situation they are experiencing, which is good, In addition, the sanctions that are being proposed little by little are working very well, “he added.
Nor does Solana believe that the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks will come to fruition. “When they are made with that difference in strength that one has against the other, in such an asymmetrical negotiation, it is very difficult.” “Putin wants there to be a new government in Ukraine and one that is prone to what he would like Ukraine to be like,” she noted.
The former minister and former head of the Atlantic Alliance believes that Europe is acting “very well” in the conflict. «It is being made difficult for the one who has started this war. And let’s see how it ends. The European Union is very united and the sanctions have been approved by all the countries, and we hope, I insist, that it ends as soon as possible. «I was at the Munich conference last week, where a very consensual presentation was made between the EU countries and where the Americans were, represented by Vice President Kamala Harris, and the possibility of moving forward was already seen. I didn’t think that everything would happen so soon, that we would have more time to continue talking. And this has not been the case, although what could be done immediately has been well planned and has worked very well. The European Union has worked as one man. You have to admit it.”
Solana does not find any parallelism between the situation in Ukraine and the one experienced when he was at the head of NATO and intervened in the Balkans. «Many years have passed and the issues that were discussed there were nationalism and of another nature. It is true that Ukraine is not the Balkans, but also that all this comes from the year 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up »she concluded.
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