The Putin’s regime has always been a terrorist one. The Russian dictator began his reign with terrorist attacks against his people, and then spread to other countries. This is confirmed by residential buildings that had been blown out in Moscow and Volgodonsk, the Second Chechen War, the rejection of part of Georgia, the actual occupation of Belarus, full-scale aggression against Ukraine, atrocities in Syria and African countries. Russia has never hesitated to commit “smaller” acts of terrorism —Litvinenko assassination in London, Khangoshvili — in Berlin, Skripal — in London, the poisoning of Navalny.
Now, the Kremlin is trying by all means to maintain control over the occupied territories by blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and threatening by a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Moscow uses nuclear, environmental and humanitarian terror of Europe as a whole in order to meet its imperial ambitious.
The delayed and insufficient response of the world community to previous terrorist attacks is the reason why Russia actively threatens the whole world using the hateful rhetoric. Permissiveness and lack of consolidation of the world community allows Russian terrorists to commit more and more large-scale crimes. Sooner or later, due to the lack of political will of individual world leaders, Moscow can do something terribly — endanger humanity.
Here, the answer to the question “how to counteract Russia?” is obvious. Putin and his terrorist troops are afraid of the united efforts of the world community, since they are unable to fight on equal with the entire civilized world. The Vilnius Summit can become a turning point in the world security history, underlining the determination of the Alliance, focused on the expansionist encroachment of a terrorist state called Russia. To do this, Ukraine must receive in Vilnius clear guarantees of its NATO membership, that is the basis for the security of all Eastern Europe. The Alliance Summit can prevent the permissiveness of the biggest nuclear terrorist of the XXI century while the world still has a chance to avoid catastrophe.
It should be understood that Russia’s threats, including nuclear ones, will not disappear even if it loses the war. Moreover, it is nuclear psychosis that will prevail in the Kremlin in any unfavorable scenario for it. Then not only the explosion of a nuclear power plant, but also the direct use of nuclear weapons can become a reality.
Already now, we should think that in addition to security guarantees for Ukraine, there is the question of whether to return this Eastern European country to the nuclear states club. This is due to the fact that Russia from the very beginning of the war to this day threatens Ukraine with the use of nuclear weapons and a nuclear terrorist attack. Only nuclear parity can cool the ardor of the Kremlin. In this case, the North Atlantic Alliance will receive not just a new member in the most dangerous direction, but a well-armed member, with its own nuclear weapon.
If Kyiv is not invited to NATO during the Vilnius Summit, this will affect the overall security architecture on the European continent in the future. The Alliance’s indecisiveness would give Putin and all his associates a carte blanche to continue their revenge against the West and carry out new, more destructive terrorist attacks on the continent. Delay in the Atlantic integration of Ukraine may be seen by Moscow as a fragmentation of the democratic coalition, which will push it to war already against NATO member countries.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was a reminder of why the Bucharest Summit was disastrous for European security. Then Ukraine and Georgia could get MAP, but the West could not reach a consensus. As a result, three months later, Russia invaded Georgia, and attacked Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. If the Alliance repeats the same mistake now, Russia will be sure again of its impunity for all the terrorist attacks committed in its history.
In the coming days, the North Atlantic Alliance has a unique opportunity, if not to prevent, then to significantly weaken the possibility of any terror and catastrophes on the European continent in the future. The Vilnius Summit is the best place for decisive steps in this direction, while there is still time and an opportunity to avoid a new man-made disaster committed by the Russian occupiers.
Source Fakti.bg