https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYVX5ZWxBA
„Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Putin realizes ‚there can be no military solution‘ | DW Interview“
„2.010.617 Aufrufe – 31.03.2022“
„The west perceived Putin as a well-known dictator and autocrat, maybe even as a corrupt
person, but still as a statesman, but in fact Putin is actually something different,
he’s a thug, his roots are in the KGB, which was a mafia style organization,
which completely ignored the law.
He has a completely different way of thinking,
any attempt to reach a compromise with that kind of a man without first showing
him strength, that is a huge mistake…Only when his force is met with force, only then is an agreement possible, anyone in russia who witnessed the mafia years in post-soviet Russia knows that and I understand that especially well,
because I spent 10 years in jail with these kinds of thugs.“
„First of all: We need to see very clearly that Putin has become or maybe he always was an
enemy of the west, that is his declared position, he has also put it in writing, including
in Russia’s national security doctrine, as long as he is in power, no one in Europe can be safe. Europe will have to spend huge amounts of money on its security, money which could have been put to better use. It is extremely important for Europe and America to put their political systems and their economies outside the reach of what I would call Putin’s extended arms, his instruments are not only his secret services, but
also businessmen who depend on him the people who refuse to call aggression
aggression, refused to call the war criminal Putin a war criminal and these
people are trying to move their money somewhere and you know that’s not that
easy to do.“