A Vladimir Putin Facing Defeat is More Dangerous
Whatever happens, global leaders cannot allow Putin’s war in Ukraine to escalate into global conflict.
The news this week that Ukrainian forces have achieved a substantial victory over Russian forces, reclaiming some territory lost in previous struggles, has ignited the media landscape from social media sites to more traditional media outlets with speculation.
Is Russia on the ropes in the Ukraine? Are Putin’s forces in imminent danger of falling to Ukrainian opposition?
German officials, reeling from a worsening energy crisis, dependent on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline reduced to zero recently by Russian energy consortium, Gazprom, have been feeling the pressure in recent weeks.
Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, has since trolled the European Union in general and Germany in particular with dystopian visions of a killing German winter without the imports of Russian energy it has become so dependent on.
Of course there are alternative sources for natural gas and oil products. E.U. officials and the German government, as well as the German political parties in opposition to Germany’s current government, have been working overtime to develop those supplemental sources.