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Former NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hop Scheffer urged the West not to give in to Russia’s security demands to thwart President Vladimir Putin’s plans to “build a superpower.”
As the Financial Times writes, the former head of the alliance considers Putin’s unwillingness to see Ukraine as part of the alliance only as a pretext for a “revanchist campaign.”
“No one can guarantee that his appetites will not grow. Putin wants much more than Ukraine and Georgia…he wants his empire back,” said De Hop Scheffer.
The ex-head of NATO in 2008 guaranteed that Kiev and Tbilisi would join NATO in the near future. Now he sees his promise as an “ugly compromise” and doubts that Ukraine will join the organization.
Earlier, the head of the US State Department, Anthony Blinken, said that back in 2008, the Russian president told the then American leader George W. Bush that Ukraine was not a real state. Thus, Blinken clarified, even then Putin was “laying the foundations for an invasion of Ukraine.”
Source: Rosbalt
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