Crushing Blow For Putin

A political scientist talks about the West's 'secret weapon'.

A recent statement by Poland's foreign minister that Ukraine should be allowed to attack Russian territory with Western weapons has caused a stir. Such a decision may seem risky to some Western politicians, but it has the potential to bring Ukraine closer to victory.

Political scientist Mykola Davidyuk told Channel 24. He believes it is time for the West to move away from the old rules of the game that were established during the Second World War.

Ukraine needs the West's decision

The information space is spreading the pressure on the possible decision of the West to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons for attacks on the territory of Russia. The Telegram channels are spreading fakes, claiming that such an announcement has been published in the New York Times, and that a German MP has "declared" it.

However, the only real source who actually expressed this idea is the Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. But the combination of these reports and fabrications may indicate that Ukraine's supporters are now trying to put pressure on individual, insufficiently decisive politicians in the West.

As Davidyuk explained, part of the West still believes in the "old rules" established after the Second World War at the Yalta-Potsdam conference by members of the anti-Hitler coalition. It adopted the crucial law that nuclear weapons should be used only as a deterrent and that conflicts should be strictly limited and managed.

Such rules of the game have long been accepted, even allowing intellectuals such as Francis Fukuyama to speak of modernity as the "end of history". The idea was that history was no longer made on the battlefield and that humanity would gradually embrace liberal values.

Today, however, the world is returning to "old history", and under these conditions the realities of the agreements reached at Yalta are no longer relevant. And the last bastion to be overcome to confirm this change is the lifting of the taboo on the possibility of punishing nuclear states by force.

"I know that some British politicians have already met their counterparts from other countries. I know that diplomats from various Western countries have already met with media people. There is no consensus there (on permission to strike Russia - 24 Channel), but a large pro-Ukrainian part of the West, not only the Baltic states and Poland, are trying to convince everyone else to increase the force of the weapons that Ukraine has," the political analyst revealed the "internal kitchen".

Their opponents are trying to prevent this decision by citing the threat of nuclear escalation, but the truth is that it was Russia that first broke these rules of the game when it "tested" the West with missile flights into Poland and the fall of the Shaheds in Romania.

"I think the West should go ahead with this decision because it should deal a crushing blow for Putin and Russia.

This combination could lead to the fall of Putin's regime - F-16s with Western missiles and permission to fire on Russian territory," Davidyuk sums up.