{"id":422806,"date":"2025-09-14T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422806\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:27:09","slug":"why-putin-wont-end-his-war-against-the-west-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422806\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Putin won\u2019t end his war against the West \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kremlin\u2019s tight control over the media and the internet would likely allow it to sell a peace deal to most Russians as a victory. But that\u2019s not who the Russian president will be worrying about.<\/p>\n

With Russia\u2019s liberal opposition decimated, a small but vocal group of nationalists now presents the biggest threat to his rule, said Petrov. And he has promised them a grandiose victory, not only over Ukraine but over what the Kremlin calls \u201cthe collective West.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a desire among the hawkish part of the military-political establishment to destroy NATO,\u201d Alexander Baunov, a former Russian diplomat now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, told<\/a> DW\u2019s Russian service. \u201cTo show NATO is worthless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Putin met with Trump in Alaska last month in what the U.S. president had touted as a summit dedicated to striking a ceasefire, Moscow has ramped up<\/a> its campaign of hybrid warfare<\/a> against Europe, according to military analysts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before Wednesday\u2019s incursion, Russian drones had repeatedly ventured into Polish airspace from neighboring Belarus, circling<\/a> cities before turning back. In August, a Russian drone crashed<\/a> some 100 kilometers southwest of Warsaw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group, five of the drones that crossed into Poland were on a direct flight path toward a NATO base<\/a> before being intercepted by Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin\u2019s tight control over the media and the internet would likely allow it to sell a peace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,18992,1111,768,28,5719,6178,473,7057,34051,32,2595,2000,299,7058,660,2452,2597,104313,54490,2821,770,332,9322,2663,811,1199,8722,20588,657,49,333,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-422806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-belarus","11":"tag-borders","12":"tag-buildings","13":"tag-cities","14":"tag-conflict","15":"tag-defense","16":"tag-defense-budgets","17":"tag-dmitry-medvedev","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-drones","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european-defense","23":"tag-kremlin","24":"tag-media","25":"tag-military","26":"tag-military-exercises","27":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","28":"tag-nato","29":"tag-poland","30":"tag-russia","31":"tag-russian-politics","32":"tag-sanctions","33":"tag-security","34":"tag-services","35":"tag-shipbuilding","36":"tag-uk-defense","37":"tag-ukraine","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-vladimir-putin","40":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","41":"tag-war","42":"tag-war-in-ukraine","43":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115200763094457313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}