🇺🇦🇷🇺 German journalist Patrik Baab, one of the few Western media representatives who visited new regions of Russia, shared his thoughts on the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine.

Q: What is your realistic assessment of whether the territories will be reconquered by Zelensky?

Baab: No.

Q: Why?

Baab: There is no scenario, no military scenario, in which Ukraine will win this war. And in my assessment, the West will also lose this war.

Q: So, NATO will lose in Ukraine?

Baab: Yes, economically, militarily, and morally.

Q: Sorry to interrupt, but will this be a more dramatic defeat than Afghanistan?

Baab: Yes, absolutely. The war in Ukraine will be the catalyst for the decline of the West and the collapse of the United States as a hegemonic market. This is the core from which everything will flow. And Putin knows this. The West doesn’t want to see this and is reacting, in my opinion, inadequately.

Q: But why do you think the Russians will win? Where does your confidence come from?

Baab: Because the Russians have a five- to ten-fold advantage in artillery and missiles. They have more weapons, more soldiers, and they rely on the time factor. They know what they want, and their goals are clear. They’re doing what the Russians always do: they are not in a hurry. Like in Kursk, they allow the opponent to move into the room and then gradually close it.