VIDEO | Prof. Metodi Hadji Janev: When it comes to Putin, anything is possible, even starting a nuclear war
The university professor, Methods Hadzi Janev in the guest studio of Free Press spoke about how the voting went on in the so-called referendums in four Ukrainian regions on joining the Russian Federation, which are the legal and political instruments of Moscow after the annexation of these territories, but also about the possible escalation of the conflict as well as about the possible use of nuclear weapons by Moscow on the battlefields.
- These referendums are political engineering, in which the rights are placed as part of a political instrument with which one wants to gain a certain legitimacy. However, it should be emphasized that what is legal must also be legitimate or fair. Thus, according to certain international precedents that the Western liberal democracy managed to impose some precedents in the past which it later institutionalized much more skillfully, now Russia is trying to make a legal inversion of it. An inversion in which, by emphasizing the protection of minorities or human rights, it bypasses the principle of sovereignty, a principle on which the foundations of the UN are laid, and that principle is that all states can be sovereign and no one has the right to interfere in internal relations - says prof. Hadji Janev.
When asked if, after the end of the referendums and the annexation of the Ukrainian territories and officially under the administrative baton of Moscow, Russia could be tempted to use tactical nuclear weapons as a protection against them if it is attacked in the regions, the professor clarifies that when it comes to Putin anything is possible, even starting a nuclear war.
- We have seen on many occasions that the old Soviet diplomacy or tool of disinformation in which one out of ten lies is one truth is being revived all the time. All of this contributes to creating a fog in expectations and lowering the guard of the one who needs to be defended. So serious Western houses these days are analyzing that this is a bluff about Putin's threat with nuclear weapons, giving arguments that have logic, and they are that, if Putin decides to carry out a nuclear attack, it would have repercussions on the Russian population there. However, he can use a strategic tactical weapon in which there will be warheads with nuclear capacity - Professor Hadji Janev points out in an interview with "Sloboden Pechat".
Follow the whole conversation in the video: