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Masala warns that time is increasingly working for Vladimir Putin.
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A war has been raging in Ukraine for two years.
There is no end in sight.
But Carlo Masala sees Russia at an advantage: “Putin seems to be right.”
Berlin – Military expert Carlo Masala warns that the Ukraine war, which has been going on for two years, will not end in 2024 either.
In an interview with the
Augsburger Allgemeine
, Masala, professor of political science at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, expressed his assessment of the situation.
Expert: There is no hope of an end to the Ukraine war in 2024
“I don’t see an end to this war in 2024, there is nothing that can give us hope,” Masala said.
He justifies this by saying that Russia is still convinced that it can win the conflict.
Ukraine now also lacks ammunition at the front, which is why it is unable to push back Russian troops.
Masala also warns that time is increasingly working for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Vladimir Putin has good cards, there’s no other way to say that,” emphasized the expert.
Putin is betting that the West will eventually give in due to signs of fatigue, since democratic societies cannot sustain such conflicts in the long term.
Expert Masala predicts growing dissatisfaction with warfare in Russia
However, one can see that the war is increasingly being brought into Russia, explained Masala.
“As a result, a delicate plant of resistance is growing within the population.
The mere fact that many heating systems in Moscow are out and people are freezing because the money is flowing into the war means that at least some Russians are beginning to doubt the meaning of these fighting." Putin was clever at this To keep war away from the Russian majority society, according to Masala.
Carlo Masala, military expert and professor of international politics at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich.
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Expert warns: Western policy is contributing to the prolongation of the Ukraine conflict
The West is also contributing to prolonging the conflict, the expert continued.
On the one hand, the West's support enabled Ukraine to defend itself.
On the other hand, however, he never did enough to break the Russian logic of the war, which continues to assume that it can win more than lose in this conflict.
“The West is prolonging the war in a positive and a negative way at the same time,” the expert summarized.
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Masala also predicts that there will be little movement in the conflict before the US election in November.
The future of the Ukraine conflict therefore remains uncertain.
(
dpa/jek
)