Putin’s regime lives by war, and accordingly, it will seize every opportunity to expand this war wherever such opportunities are provided. Wars always begin because of the weakness of democracies. A strong democracy has never yet become the object of attack.
Today, Europe is absolutely unprepared for any action. They are afraid even to think about the possibility of a military confrontation with Russia. We are dealing with people accustomed to operating in a completely different framework: consensus, agreements, mutual concessions. But wars are not won this way — and Putin is waging precisely a war against them.
It can be said with almost 100 percent certainty that impotence will lead to further provocations, and sooner or later they will become land-based. At some point, Putin will inevitably try to cross the border of a NATO country in order to demonstrate that such an organization no longer exists.
For a full twelve minutes Russian aircraft were in Estonian airspace with complete impunity! As we recall, Turkey once needed only twelve seconds to shoot down such a plane with a missile. And the matter was settled: Russian planes no longer entered Turkish airspace. But in Europe, as we see, there is no one able to give such an order — and so we wait for the next act of the spectacle.
Any demonstration of weakness, any attempt to appease the dictator, to play along with him — leads to escalation. This is a rule, an axiom. Every display of impotence provokes a response. A dictator can only be stopped by tough measures — as Erdogan once did.
Europe must acknowledge a simple and obvious truth: there is a war underway, and it is a participant in it. Not because it wishes to be, but because Putin has made it so. And until Europe is ready to recognize this, the situation will steadily deteriorate.
