In an interview with CNN, Public Law specialist Ricardo Macau opined that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should not enter into direct armed conflict with Russia. According to the expert, the country is a strong military power and would be a war with the NATO countries would be a risk to humanity.
“NATO and the US have been directly attacking the interior of the Russian regime, trying to show the Russian population that this attack, this war, does not reflect the information that was announced by the Moscow Government Summit, and that other consequences will be felt along the way. of times to come in the Russian economy,” he said.
The sanctions applied by Western bodies as a form of retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine could harm the permanence of Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, in power. “Putin managed to stay in power for so long because he managed to perform a real economic miracle in Russia, and if there is an economic crisis that expands in the context of the country, Russia as a whole will feel these effects, and the internal governability of the country will suffer. get pretty compromised. This will frustrate Putin’s plans to stay and those who support the war today”.
He said the scenario for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine during this week, the second in the conflict, is more encouraging than the previous one. While a few days ago there was talk of a possible overthrow of the Ukrainian government and an annexation of a large portion of the territory to Russia, at the moment, Moscow seems farther away from that kind of decision.
A spokeswoman for the Russian government said on Wednesday that the country did not want to overthrow Ukraine’s government, and that negotiations had advanced. Humanitarian corridors were opened to facilitate the exit of civilians from the country, in a crisis that generated thousands of refugees.
According to Macau, if Ukraine decides to maintain a neutral position in relation to entities such as NATO and the European Union, negotiations for a de-escalation of the conflict could enter its first steps.
However, the expert says that any prediction for the future is risky.
Ricardo Macau highlighted that the conflict brings a mix of elements never seen before. In some ways, it resembles the older wars, with strong involvement of the civilian population, and in others, the post-First and Second World Wars wars, with heavy weaponry and high precision. “We see a war that for the first time also takes place outside the battlefields. It takes place on social networks, in the media, where the efforts made by Moscow are not being enough to control the effects it has had on Russian territory,” he said.
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Source: CNN Brasil

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