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NATO counters Putin's nuclear threat: Agreed in Elmau, nervous in the Kremlin

2022-07-06T03:01:24.581Z


NATO counters Putin's nuclear threat: Agreed in Elmau, nervous in the Kremlin Created: 07/06/2022 04:53 By: Georg Anastasiadis A commentary by Merkur Editor-in-Chief Georg Anastasiadis. © Csaba Krizsan/MTI/AP/dpa/Klaus Haag The West demonstrated unity against Putin at the G7 summit in Elmau, which made the Kremlin nervous. Will the attack on Ukraine end in a Pyrrhic victory for Moscow? A comme


NATO counters Putin's nuclear threat: Agreed in Elmau, nervous in the Kremlin

Created: 07/06/2022 04:53

By: Georg Anastasiadis

A commentary by Merkur Editor-in-Chief Georg Anastasiadis.

© Csaba Krizsan/MTI/AP/dpa/Klaus Haag

The West demonstrated unity against Putin at the G7 summit in Elmau, which made the Kremlin nervous.

Will the attack on Ukraine end in a Pyrrhic victory for Moscow?

A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis

Putin was wrong again: the German chancellor, of all people, on whose supposed flexibility Moscow had placed such high hopes at the beginning of the war, is swearing by the West that further measures will be taken against Russia.

The G7 would have to make "hard but necessary decisions" and "further increase the pressure on Putin," Olaf Scholz tweeted on Monday.

One of these measures leaked out yesterday, on the eve of the NATO meeting: NATO responded to Putin's announcement that nuclear-capable missiles would soon be stationed in Belarus by increasing its rapid reaction forces from 40,000 to 300,000. That's a strong sign right now also to Lithuania, which has come under the scrutiny of the Kremlin's hawks for its refusal to allow land transport of certain goods to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

War in Ukraine: Demonstration of Western unity at G7 summit makes Kremlin nervous

Putin's propaganda may seek to ridicule the Elmau "G7 summit show," but Moscow's frantic maneuvers -- the rockets on Kyiv, the horrific attack on a shopping center, Putin's modest travel diplomacy in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan -- show that the demonstration of the unity of the West and its advances to the emerging countries of India, South Africa, Senegal, Indonesia and Argentina are making the Kremlin nervous.

Putin's threat to paralyze Europe with the use of gas weapons has not led to the change of course he had hoped for.

The Americans' promise to send modern anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine after all is a setback for the dictator in a war in which things are anything but smooth for him.

In the end, it could happen that Putin has to be content with the Donbass and let the rest of Ukraine move into the EU.

The division of Germany after World War II, with the greater part being tied to the West, could serve as a blueprint for a peace solution.

Then Putin would have won a Pyrrhic victory in Ukraine.

Source: merkur

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