NATO General: Anti-Russian sanctions do not work, Ukraine needs military assistance
The West has not been able to change the behavior of the Russian leadership in the Ukrainian direction with the previous sanctions restrictions, and therefore it is necessary to think about more effective ones.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this during an online discussion on the Open Ukraine Internet channel, the commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe in 2013-2016, General Philip Breedlove, said.
“In the past, we only applied technical sanctions against Russia, which may not have been effective enough because they did not change the behavior of Russia and Mr. Putin. If we continue to use economic sanctions, we must make sure that this time they will be truly painful and change the behavior of the Russian leadership,” Breedlove said.
He believes that the West has more tools than just economic sanctions.
“These include diplomatic sanctions and the involvement of other Western countries so that they strongly condemn the escalation, and we need to strengthen the coalition in support of Ukraine. It is necessary to show both the world and the Russian people that an aggressive war is taking place and what the accumulation of troops on the border can lead to,” the general added.
“If economic sanctions do not work, then we need to look at options for military assistance, so that for Russia the cost of a possible potential military attack or aggression is the loss of serious advantages,” Breedlove concluded.
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