Political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman explained that a Russian drone strike on a residential building in Romania is politically an attack on NATO, and argued that the Alliance must respond before it is too late, according to Politeka.
He shared these views on his blog.
According to the expert, following the attack, Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the invocation of Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, meaning consultations among allies. Russia’s actions were condemned, the Russian ambassador was summoned, officials declared that this represented a new level of escalation, and promised a diplomatic response.
“Do we really believe such responses will stop Russia? On the contrary, they will only encourage it. The Russians deliberately strike a residential building in Romania. In a sense, they are testing NATO’s resolve. Only this time there are already victims. The Romanian military failed to protect its own citizens. So where is NATO? Where is the retaliatory strike? Where will it be directed? It seems to me that nowhere,” Sheitelman claims.
He recalls that Putin did not attack Ukraine all at once. Instead, the process began gradually, with the appearance of the so-called “little green men” who emerged from military barracks, and Crimea was seized within a matter of days. The region has now remained under occupation for many years. However, the expert argues that if the Ukrainian Armed Forces had opened fire in 2014 as soon as Russian troops left their base in Sevastopol, there would have been no full-scale war, no such enormous loss of life, and the Kremlin would not have dared to escalate further.
“Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Finland, if they do not immediately resist the aggressor, may not even notice when the little green men appear. Of course, this is Putin’s strategy—not a direct frontal attack, but a gradual escalation: strike a little, see that there is no reaction, then strike harder. If no one reacts to empty drones, then next come drones carrying warheads aimed at residential buildings in Romania. This is Russia’s plan. Later, it may lead to a situation where people find themselves refugees somewhere in Brazil or Argentina, wondering how they failed to stop these villains in time—if they do not open fire now,” Mikhail Sheitelman warns.
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