Soros cast Russia, by far the world's biggest country by area, and China, the world's second largest economy, as the leading members of a group of ascendant "closed societies" where the individual was subservient to the state.Įchoing U.S. "I can't predict the outcome, but Ukraine certainly has a fighting chance," Soros said. Ukraine and its Western allies reject these as baseless pretexts to invade a sovereign country. Putin says the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia through NATO enlargement and Moscow had to defend against the persecution of Russian-speaking people. 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more and raised fears of the most serious confrontation between Russia and the United States since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Soros said the European Union had to understand that Putin could turn off Russian natural gas, which currently accounts for about 40% of Europe's needs, "while it really hurts". "The weaker Putin gets the more unpredictable he becomes." "But the ceasefire is unattainable because he cannot be trusted," Soros said. Soros said that Putin, who says the "special operation" in Ukraine is going to plan and will achieve all the Kremlin's aims, now believed the invasion was a mistake and was preparing to negotiate a ceasefire. "The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible.
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