With each passing day, we learn more about the collateral damage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian escalation via energy blackmail and the use of nuclear weapons is pushing toward world famine, Russia exceeds the limits of rationality in its intimidation of the West.

Russia’s invasion claims to want to “denazify” Ukraine, but it is fueling fascism and fanning the embers of ethnic cleansing and religious hatred in the Balkan region.

The coexistence between the communities in free Kosovo and Bosnia has been put to the test thanks to Russian support for extremists in this region of high tension which has experienced massacres and a Genocide against Albanians and Bosnians of all religions. Muslims or Catholics in the name of ethnic and religious superiority.

This very dangerous game of Moscow wanting to put hard pressure on NATO and the European Union via the reactivation of the masters of war by weakening the peace between Serbs, Albanians, Bosnians and Croats could sink the continent into a spiral of violence and unprecedented hatred.

This escalation in a powder keg, which once saw the birth of the First World War, challenges the free world on the need for its sacred union in the face of the demons of fascism to put an end to this plot of expansionism which could in case of success sweep away all the foundations of peace and coexistence, however fragile they may be…

Sarhane Saadi
Founder and Executive Director
SATAS International for Strategic Studies