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Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Ukraine must win this war, because if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, he will continue into Moldova and Georgia

09.06.22 10:30


“We made a mistake many years ago. The first mistake was back in 2008 when we had a NATO summit in Bucharest in which we decided that Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO. But we couldn’t agree on granting them a so-called membership action plan,” former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says in an interview with Foreign Policy.

 

According to him, the above split within NATO sent the wrong message to Putin, who attacked Georgia a few months after in August 2008.

 

“I think we made the first mistake back in 2008 in not outlining a clear path forward for Georgia and Ukraine. We also made a mistake in 2014 after the illegal Russian annexation of Crimea into the Russian Federation, where we introduced some sanctions. But they were mild sanctions. And all that gave Putin the impression that he could, almost without any cost, continue and grab land by force. So, we have made many mistakes. We have been too naive for too long”, said the former Secretary General.

 

According to him, Ukraine must win this war, because if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, he won’t stop.

 

"He will continue into Moldova, Georgia, and eventually also put pressure on the three Baltic states. That’s why the Ukrainians must win, and they have the will to fight. It’s our duty to give them the means to fight," he said.

 

 

source: IPN 

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