Russia believes that the existence of an independent country in territory that Moscow considers “in its history” could be considered a reason for its army to invade.
Russia threatens not only Ukraine, but also many other states, and we are talking not only about the territories neighboring the Russian Federation. The arms control adviser at the United States Mission to the OSCE, Daniel Vartko, said this on Thursday, February 1, at a meeting on Thursday, February 1, Ukrinform reports.
The American diplomat recalled that the Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that “the existence of an independent state in the historical territories of Russia will be a permanent reason for the continuation of the conflict.”
According to Vartko, these threats indicate that Russia’s aggression may go beyond Ukraine’s borders.
According to him, Moscow can target the Baltic countries and Central Asian states – Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, as well as Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.
In addition, the diplomat stressed that the risk of military conflict exists for Poland, Finland, Belarus, Moldova and Turkey, as they all contain at least part of the territory formerly controlled by the Russian or Soviet empires. .
“I’m not making things up or scaremongering. The Russian war against Ukraine has been fueled by this specific rationale. And Russia has begun to make veiled and open threats to use force against other close neighbors , “he says.
He emphasized that there are many examples in history that indicate that dictators should not be silenced, but their aggression should be resisted.
As we have already written, the German Bundeswehr is preparing for a possible conflict between Russia and NATO and has predicted its course for all of 2024 and part of 2025.
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