According to Aaltola, Western countries should have started arming Ukraine much earlier.
11.7. 16:26
Foreign policy director of the institute Mika Aaltola believes that the Russian president Vladimir Putin in the end, something completely different than international sanctions or Ukrainian resistance will befall us.
“If you look at the Roman emperors, was it the case that only one died a natural death. Usually dictators tend to meet their gruesome fate. Justice comes, but it often comes in a way that has not been regulated internationally,” Aaltola said in a panel discussion at Suomi-Areena on Monday afternoon.
Aaltola received applause from the audience for his speech. However, Aaltola is not correct in his statistics, because Historia magazine according to the 400-year period beginning with Augustus and ending with Theodosius I, about three-quarters of the Roman emperors died violently.
Putin himself has compared himself to Peter the Great, who ruled first as tsar and then as emperor from 1682 until his death in 1725.
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Aaltolan including Western countries and especially the United States president Barack Obama’s during the seasons, he acted lazily believing that Russia would eventually collapse into its own impossibility.
At the latest, after Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine at the end of February, world politics has seen the “more primitive side of power”, where the struggle for existence determines the way politics are made.
“Russian power must face a counterforce somewhere. It was a surprise even to myself that it already met it in the fighting will of the Ukrainians,” Aaltola said.
Mixed Aaltola that the professor emeritus of international law who participated in the panel Martti Koskenniemi believe that for a long time the Western countries lacked the willpower to prevent the expansionist efforts of Russia and Putin.
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This is evidenced, among other things, by the fact that when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, Western countries continued to trade with Russia.
According to Aaltola, Western countries and especially the United States should have reacted to Russia’s actions by 2014 at the latest.
“Obama stated that it was impossible to arm Ukraine at the time to the extent that it could put Russia at ease. It was probably a miscalculation,” Aaltola said.
Kossenniemi on the other hand, reminds that the United States and Great Britain attacked Iraq in 2003 in violation of the provisions of the UN Charter.
“I want to try to understand the history of the 21st century, where a large part of Western legal discourse appears in a large part of the world to be very hypocritical, when [Yhdysvallat ja Iso-Britannia] were just about to destroy Iraq illegally in a brazen way, the illegality of which there is no particular disagreement,” says Koskenniemi.
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The Iraq war lasted until 2010 and hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have died in it.
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