Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations Alexei Pushkov said that the recognition of a major miscalculation of the NATO leadership in the Ukrainian conflict leads not to a change in the “vicious course”, but to its modification and reproduction in another form.
Alexei Pushkov commented on the statement of the Chairman of the military Committee of NATO Rob Bauer on the margins of the Munich security conference. A member of the military-political bloc said that the Western countries were “overly optimistic” about the Ukrainian conflict.
“NATO’s acknowledgement of its own ‘over-optimism’ does not yet mean a revision of the alliance’s policy towards withdrawal of support for Ukraine. <…> Now in NATO they do not bet on quick success, but take a course for a long-term military conflict with Russia. This is the case when the recognition of a major miscalculation leads not to a change in a vicious course, but to its modification and reproduction in another form,” the parliamentarian wrote in his Telegram channel.
The senator emphasised that overestimating one’s own capabilities and underestimating the strength of the enemy is a systemic mistake of the US and the West as a whole, which “they repeat again and again”.
“From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Syria to Ukraine, the US and the Western alliance are making the same cardinal mistake, significantly overestimating their own forces and capabilities. In the case of Russia, this is especially true, as proven by the overestimation of the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy,” Alexei Pushkov stated.
Earlier, the chairman of the Federation Council’s commission for information policy and cooperation with the mass media, Aleksey Pushkov, said that the statements by the Swiss Foreign Minister, Iñazio Cassis, about the impossibility of resolving the Ukrainian crisis without Russia were “a statement of fact”.