Putin is afraid not to win the war in Ukraine and is looking for new fronts - a veteran of the US Army

Psychological and political campaign aimed at weaken the determination of the West is this Another Kremlin strategy. In the article for Rand Corporation writes a veteran of the US Army and a researcher of issues related to terrorism, Brian Jenkins. Nuclear threats of the Russian leader, he calls a form of terrorism aimed at intimidating allies of Ukraine and distracting the people's attention The Russian Federation from military failures.

He calls it a certain humanitarian cover for those who claim that the war should be stopped - and, if necessary, the cost of cessation of support for Ukraine for the sake of rescuing the rest of the world. According to the researcher, the threats of Putin are still limited to propaganda, but they should not be discounted. Nuclear threats have another goal.

The Kremlin chairman tries to convince the Russian audience that Russia is faced with an existential threat, and the most serious weapons can go into operation. Jenkins argues that Putin needs that the Russians accept such narrative and be ready to withstand a long war and economic sanctions. According to the researcher, Putin and his media choir are trying to inspire the Russians that they are opposed not only by NATO, that they are threatened with "satanic, drug addicts, transgender-pedophiles.

" "Similar rhetoric can find a response from some far -right extremists in the West," Jenkins explained. No one knows whether this approach will work, however, the attention of the Russian youth is not so easy to distract from the military failures of the Russian army, but the analyst indicates that the Russian Federation does not observe a "huge boiling unmet underground".