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What Will End Russia’s War?
Military Deterrence & Its Promises
Everyone’s been talking about deterrence for a long time now. We want to see the end to this for the sake of the Ukrainian people.
Former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised that integrating the Russian economy with that of the European Union, would deter Putin from risking economic upheaval.
Presently, Olaf Scholz, with the pressure of the international community, takes a different approach. With more than 2% of Germany’s GDP and more than 100 billion euro investments, Germany’s military is seeing a big boom.
Militarization, rather than economic integration, is the new primary deterrent force, it seems. That’s an unprecedented shift.
In the words of the Slovakian President, Zuzana Caputova:
“Our packages of medicine and food will not drive out your occupiers. Your defenders need military equipment. That is why we help. Soon, we will supply Zuzana howitzers.”
Elsewhere, I have argued that the six sanctions packages the EU issued on Russia might be their tipping point. I received some heat for it.
