The Empire strikes back
“No one can tell today when the war will end,” Stoltenberg said. “But what we do know is that this is a war of aggression, this is actually a war of choice by President Putin. He decided to invade another country, a sovereign democratic state in Europe. But the challenge is that we don’t see any signs that President Putin and rules in Moscow are preparing for peace. We see that they are preparing for more war, that they are mobilising more soldiers, more than 200,000, and potentially even more than that. That they are actively acquiring new weapons, more ammunition. We have seen no sign that President Putin has changed his overall goal of this invasion that is to control a neighbour, to control Ukraine. So as long as this is the case, we need to be prepared for long haul.”