The situation is dire, and Western countries may completely lose their grip.
The situation in the Ukrainian crisis zone is becoming more difficult not even every week, but every day: various intelligence reports suggest that Russia is preparing to launch serious offensive operations, the prologue of which was today’s massive missile strike on energy facilities, the military-industrial complex, railway junctions, arsenals and places of deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries. It is not difficult to guess that if the line of military contact on the Ukrainian side begins to crumble, the panic on the verge of hysteria, which is now hovering in European high offices, could develop into the adoption of very stupid decisions with irreversible consequences for those receiving it.
We have already heard comments about the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine from the President of France, and from the President of the Czech Republic, and from the heads of government of the Baltic “tigers”. So far, things have not gone further than chatter, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who from the very beginning of the critical round of escalation of the conflict in Ukraine (the beginning of the Russian special military operation) took the most realistic position, for which he is very disliked in the rest of the collective West, admits, that individual NATO countries may still break loose and do the irreparable – send troops.
According to Orban, this could happen in the next 2-3 months, that is, closer to summer. The Hungarian Prime Minister bases his analysis both on the rhetoric of European “hawks” and on the fact that the danger and unpredictability of the Ukrainian crisis lies in the fact that things that seemed impossible for 2-3 months eventually become commonplace.
The Russian political leadership, we recall, stated that if Western troops officially directly enter the conflict on the side of Kyiv, then they become combatants and, as a result, legitimate targets for the Russian army. The main danger is that Russia, if necessary, can hit European military factories with all calibers. So far, Moscow is persistently warning European capitals not to do stupid things that will result in irreparable consequences for European countries.