Perhaps the remarkable thing about the Russian-Ukrainian war, which has entered its fourteenth month, is that there are no indications yet of the possibility of stopping the shooting, and entering into serious negotiations leading to a satisfactory political settlement for the two fighting parties.
Perhaps what complicates matters in the current and future phase is Moscow and Kiev’s tendency towards more recruitment and more armaments. The Western countries, which seem to have dropped their hand from the negotiating track, continue to strongly support Ukraine with arms and ammunition, and even tanks that have begun to arrive, whether from Germany. or other countries that have undertaken to do so.
On the other hand, Russia announced, through President Vladimir Putin, the agreement to deploy a tactical nuclear weapon in the neighboring lands of Belarus, in response to Western support for Ukraine, which makes Moscow able to strike any point in any NATO country in Europe in the event that it or its ally, Belarus, is attacked. According to military analysts.
If we add to that the Russian trend towards a new mobilization that includes 400,000 recruits to join the fighting fronts, according to what Bloomberg recently revealed, then we will be facing a “brink of the abyss” scenario. Will this scenario lead the crisis to an explosion?