Condoleezza Rice (Portal/Brian Snyder/File Photo)
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice He warned this Friday, a year after the war in Ukraine, that if he could send a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it would be that Russia will eventually become “a great North Korea” if he does the same path continues.
“The message I would give him is this is not going to end well because your country is going to be a great North Korea. Is that the legacy you want to leave?” Rice, who was secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009 and was his national security adviser for the previous four years, said at a panel discussion organized by the Brookings Institution in Washington.
He gave several information about the clear decline that Russia is experiencing since it decided to invade Ukraine, starting with the impact on its economy, or the fact that 800,000 Russiansamong whom are “the best and brightest” have left their country.
He also said that Putin was “dependent” on the group Wagner mercenaries In order to continue this struggle, it is risking its entire military capacity and has achieved that its “place” should be on the international stage “Subject to China”.
According to Rice, Russia has achieved that its “place” on the international stage is “subordinate to China” (Sputnik/Anton Novoderezhkin/Pool via Portal).
For all these reasons, he believed that if he could send a message to Putin, it would be that “he has already lost what he hoped to achieve” and that his country will be far from defending itself if he continues down this path, Russian “pride” on the international stage, and it will be a “greater North Korea” instead.
There was also intervention in the same forum Stephen Hadley, who was National Security Adviser to the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009, and warned that Putin “will not give up his dream of restoring the Russian empire with the territory of the former Soviet Union. And that starts with Ukraine.”
However, he added that if Putin realized he was not meeting his goals, he could take a “pause,” which should be used to give Ukraine all the weapons, training and intelligence it needs to catch up Possibility to launch a counter-offensive Sometime this year.
(With information from EFE)
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