In a much-noticed essay entitled
Winter Is Coming
("winter is coming", a reference to the series
Game of Thrones
), the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov announced, in 2015, the freezing cold that would come. take down Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Since February 2022, the black winds of the Siberian winter have been blowing at full force across Ukraine.
Today they threaten to reach Europe, while the “re-election” of Vladimir Putin and the attack in Moscow claimed by Daesh herald a further hardening of the regime.
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“After the Russian election and before the American elections, the Kremlin has six months to take military or diplomatic initiatives and push its advantage in Ukraine while the Americans will be paralyzed and unable to move due to the electoral campaign. We must fear a strategic reorientation of Russian policy
,” warns a senior French diplomat.
The period has probably never been so dangerous and uncertain...
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