In an interview with The Post, Latvia’s Defense Minister Artis Pabriks warns that if we don't stop Russia in Ukraine, Putin will not stop there.
is hearing a warning and an ask from its leaders. Putin must be stopped in Ukraine, they’re saying. At the same time, the West must do far more to shore up NATO territory in Eastern Europe, where, they fear, Putin’s gaze may turn next.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Latvia’s Defense Minister Artis Pabriks talks of how the West’s long attempts to integrate Russia succeeded mostly in making it beholden to the tainted wealth of Putin’s oligarchs. He also warns of the unpredictability of Putin. Washington has downplayed the Russian leader’s thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons — a nightmare scenario Pabriks is not so quick to discard.
One of the answers lie with what [Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council] Dmitry Medvedev said in that staged security council meeting in Russia shortly before the invasion. He basically said, ‘Look, we’ve faced this situation before when we invaded Georgia, when we took Crimea. And what was the Western reaction? These guys are soft. They will first come with economic sanctions, and later, they will crawl back to us and ask for business as usual. They will blink.
We totally support this buildup. Totally. About two months ago, our neighboring country, Estonia, wanted to deliver old-fashioned [weapons] to the Ukrainian army and the Germans were blocking it because they originally came from East Germany. I said at the time that the Germans were being hypocritical and immoral. They got very upset about my words. But I told their minister, ‘You’re the biggest country in Europe and you have a defense and military responsibility.
I don’t wonder about their tactics because I expected this from the very beginning. This rise in civilian casualties to try to cause a panic in Ukraine. They want to turn Kyiv and other cities into Grozny, as we saw in the Chechen war. This is their tactic. This is how they understand war. They don’t believe in human rights.
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