Jan 1, 2025
“Putin will have to significantly increase expenditure. That will not be possible. And that will create a real pressure on Putin.” Doubling military support to Ukraine is the key to defeating Russia, says former prime minister of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov.
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Digmen 1
Yes double the support to Ukraine.
Russia will not be able to match it.
That is what Reagan and Thatcher did in the 1980s and the Soviet Union collapsed.
@borisreljanovic7292
Mikhail Kasyanov is a great man. It”s a tragedy for Russia that him or Kasparov never received the opportunity to became presidents of Russia. I think at that moment…Russia would change its direction as a country.
paulrobertsmith2406
I’ve followed this story since the ‘terrorist’ bombings, then the Chechen war, Geogia etc. Great insight into the evolution of this criminal invasion of Ukraine. The west is complicit, having not intervened, admonished nor prevented pootin and his gang of thugs sooner.
@dpelpal
I am Russian, I will say, with crashing of ruble in last 3 days there will be crisis time now. We are make return to 1990s years.
Reagan and Thatcher is what we desperately need in these trying times.
I think they would have a) turned Ukraine into a military superpower and b) established a NFZ at the earliest possible moment.
With them two, this war wouldn’t even exist. Maybe not even vlad the Impaler.
Maxim Tucker is being far too even-handed. “Putin wants to return to the international stage.”
I can’t believe he said that; as if putler had committed a few minor misdemeanours. Sick. ruZZia must NEVER “return to the international stage”; at least not until it has been defeated, repatriations paid and democracy fully and irrevocably established.
Mikhail Kasyanov has a viable solution: listen to his Times interview; already posted.