According to Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Russia will continue to threaten with special weapons systems.
The sending of battle tanks to Ukraine has sparked a discussion about the danger of escalation of the war of aggression started by Russia. For example, there has been concern in Germany about sending stronger weapon systems from there to Ukraine.
– We have heard about this danger of escalation ever since we thought about whether to give assault rifles, says the leading researcher of the Foreign Policy Institute Charly Salonius-Pasternak Up in the morning.
According to Salonius-Pasternak, Russia will continue to threaten with special weapons systems.
– Russia will say this and then threaten to destroy everything if the West escalates by supplying new weapon systems, Salonius-Pasternak says.
According to Salonius-Pasternak, Russia has no special weapons systems.
– There aren’t any. So if we put the use of nuclear weapons aside, there are none, says Salonius-Pasternak.
According to Salonius-Pasternak, this is Russia’s information warfare, which has worked very well against the Germans, for example.
Salonius-Pasternak hopes for speed in the next arms aid decisions
Salonius-Pasternak believes that the discussion about fighter jets will soon come up.
– Won’t the discussion here also come quickly, because it seems that even though the tanks will be used in the spring, the war will not end there either, Salonius-Pasternak sums up.
Lieutenant colonel evp. Juhani Pihlajamaan according to, at this point, Ukraine would perhaps need more other armaments, which means heavy artillery, anti-aircraft, long-range missiles rather than aircraft or fighter jets.
Pihlajamaa says that the most likely escalation would be if the NATO countries would participate in the fighting in some way, rather than providing armed aid.
– That would certainly be what the Russians could appeal to, Pihlajamaa says.
Pihlajamaa is on the same lines as Salonius-Pasternak that the equipment given is just propaganda and pushing one’s own narrative.
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