Peace requires pressure on every member of Russia’s coalition – expert
Peace requires pressure on every member of the coalition supporting Russia until continuing the war forces them into a serious dilemma and a settlement begins to offer them benefits.
Kasapoğlu, a Senior Fellow and Defense Analyst at Hudson Institute, emphasized in an interview with Ukrinform that peace in Russia's current conflict necessitates applying pressure to all members of its coalition. He highlighted that North Korea provides much of Russia's artillery ammunition, Geran-Shahed drones contain Iranian Revolutionary Guard DNA, Chinese machine tools sustain arms production, and Belarus enabled the northern front, surrendering strategic autonomy to Moscow.
This expert believes that pressure must be placed not only on Russia but on the entire coalition. Kasapoğlu stated, "Peace requires pressure on every coalition member until war produces a serious predicament and settlement offers gain." He cautioned that concessions to Russia over occupied territories could have far-reaching consequences beyond the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Rewarding conquest in exchange for peace, he argued, would reverse centuries of progress, suspend the UN order, and potentially reignite wars of annexation. Kasapoğlu concluded by asserting that Ukraine's fate will determine whether a democratic, market-based, digitally connected, and technologically entrepreneurial post-Soviet state can endure, or if autocratic imitation and escalation will define the upcoming era.
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