American writer: "Putin is wounded"... How can we deal with him?

The American writer David Brooks stressed - in an article in the American newspaper "New York Times" - that the hope of the United States to get out of the bottleneck of the Ukrainian crisis lies in the conviction of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to negotiations as the only solution to end the war, in which President Vladimir will not accept to appear. Putin is weak.

Brooks said that Washington hopes that Putin will take the initiative to review his accounts and discuss the cost of the war he declared on Ukraine, and be convinced of the necessity of negotiating a way out.

She also hopes that the Ukrainians will discuss the details of the war and what it has cost so far, and thus are convinced that despite their victories, it is almost impossible to expel the Russian forces that have established their presence in eastern Ukraine, and then realize that the solution lies in negotiations.

The American writer stressed that if all parties review their calculations, then a regional settlement can be reached that restores stability in the region based on respect for the rules of international relations, noting that many elements of Western strategic thinking ignore what the Ukrainians themselves want.

"wounded tiger"

Brooks described Putin as "like a wounded tiger" who decided to escalate the attack when he learned that his strength was fading, as he stressed in his last speech that the war in Ukraine is a defensive measure against Western powers, who want to divide and destroy Russia, and warned that the Crimea is part of the territory And any attack on it will be considered an attack on Russia, which calls for the use of all the weapons that his country has, in an allusion to nuclear weapons.

This comes despite the fact that between 80,000 and 110,000 Russian soldiers - the writer says - were killed or wounded during the past seven months, and Russia lost 50% of its tanks and a large proportion of its military vehicles, and incurred heavy losses in its warplanes, and most of the Russian forces Over the past weeks it has been either on the defensive or on the decline.

According to the writer, American officials are studying all scenarios of escalation that Putin may resort to, including the bombing of American facilities in Poland or elsewhere in central Europe, or even the bombing of American satellites, or the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, in order to intimidate Western countries into stopping their support. for Ukraine.

He explained that what appears on the horizon is the raging fire of war, as the United States will continue to support Ukraine, albeit "slowly" to defeat the Russians, in exchange for the escalation of Putin, who in turn is preparing to push 300,000 new Russian soldiers to the war mill.

US President Joe Biden had warned Putin against using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, and vowed to respond firmly without clarifying the possible scenarios for the supposed US response.

And US media have previously confirmed that Washington has been warning Moscow "through private communications" against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.