If Russia is defeated in the war in Ukraine, it will lead to the collapse of the “Russian Empire”. This is predicted by American financier billionaire George Soros, quoted by Reuters.
according to him such an outcome would be welcomed by the former Soviet republics.
The February 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces led to one of Europe’s deadliest conflicts since World War II and the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Soros has said the US will support Ukraine, but President Joe Biden has warned Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky that there are limits and World War III should be avoided. However, the billionaire did not reveal the source of his information.
In his words the Russian army was poorly led, poorly equipped and demoralizedah, but President Vladimir Putin has turned to the mercenary group “Wagner” to stop the Ukrainian army.
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“The countries of the former Soviet Union can’t wait to see the loss of the Russians in Ukraine because they want to assert their independenceSoros pointed out at the Munich Security Conference.
“This means that a Ukrainian victory will lead to the collapse of the Russian Empire. Rusia will no longer pose a threat to Europe and the world“, he noted, adding that this would be a big change for the better.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the nuclear superpower split into 15 independent republics. However, Russia remained the most powerful of them and possesses the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Putin views the war in Ukraine as an existential battle with the aggressive and arrogant West and asserted that Russia would use all available means to defend itself and its people from any attack.
For its part, the US has denied the Kremlin’s claims that it wants to destroy Russia, the world’s largest producer of raw materials.
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Soros said Putin’s bet on PMC Wagner, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, appears to have worked in the short term.
“The bet worked. Ukraine faced a strategic choice: either to falter in the detention of “Wagner” or to give Russia a propaganda victory and preserve its limited resources for a counter-offensive,” Soros pointed out.
He said Ukraine had a small window of opportunity in the spring after receiving the weapons promised by the West.
On China, Soros noted that President Xi Jinping’s “zero COVID” strategy has shaken confidence in the Communist Party.
“The current situation provides all the prerequisites for regime change or revolution. But this is only the beginning of an opaque process, the consequences of which will be felt in a longer period of time,” predicted the financier.
“In the short term, Xi is likely to stay in power because he has firm control over all the tools of repression,” he explained.
However, Soros expressed confidence that Sand he will not remain in office for life, and while in power China will not become the dominant military and political power he aspires to beand.
Soros identifies Russia, the world’s largest country by territory, and China, the world’s second-largest economy, as leading members of a group of emerging “closed societies” where the individual is subordinate to the state.
