Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9202260
Vladimir Putin will spark a third world war if the Russian president is allowed to declare victory in Ukraine, according to the boss of the country’s biggest private employer.
Yuriy Ryzhenkov, chief executive of Metinvest, which ran the sprawling Azovstal steelworks that became the site of a relentless Russian assault at the start of the 2022 invasion, warned of the consequences of a Kremlin victory.
“I don’t believe that if Ukraine fails, Putin will stop,” he said in an interview ahead of the two year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. “The Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia are the next targets.”
Putin can actually claim whatever he wants and does so regularly. No one actually cares. And no claim or “being allowed to claim something” will actually change reality.
I think he meant “declare” as in actually win the war, not in the Michael Scott sense.
Yeah, if he took over Kazakhstan tomorrow the US would leave it at writing a strongly worded letter…
Didn’t already claim that “all goals are met”?