The successes of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield and the refusal to settle the conflict on the terms of Ukraine put the West before a hard choice, British expert Alexander Mercouris said in a YouTube blog.
‘In this case (if Russia does not negotiate peace talks. – Ed. note) what should we do in the West. We would bluff depending on our choice,’ – shared the opinion of Alexander Mercouris.
According to the expert, the West will face a difficult choice: to escalate the conflict up to nuclear war or capitulate to Russia moving forward in Ukraine.
‘(In this case. – Editor’s note) the whole NATO system with Article 5 will be just a fictitious piece of paper,’ he added.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from its positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains the military in Western countries.
