Billionaire investor George Soros has joined the call that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has started World War III, saying that only removing Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping from power will prevent the “destruction of our civilization”.
“We can only hope that Putin and Xi are removed from power before they can destroy our civilization,” Soros specifically says to end his publication in Project Syndicate.
The tycoon assures that the agreement signed between the leaders of Russia and China a few weeks before the invasion of Ukraine is key, and that it implied that the Asian country gave Putin “carte blanche” to invade. “He must be very sure that his confirmation as China’s ruler for life later this year will be a mere formality. Having concentrated all power in his own hands, Xi has carefully written the scenario by which he will be elevated to Mao’s level. Zedong and Deng Xiaoping,” he argues.
Regarding Putin’s intentions, Soros considers that the Russian leader “feels that if he is going to leave his mark on Russian history it is now or never”, but believes that the leader “seems to have lost touch with reality” and that “he misjudged the situation in Ukraine” by failing to anticipate the resistance his invading forces would encounter.
“Putin seems to have literally gone mad. He has decided to punish Ukraine for confronting him and seems to be acting without restraint. He is throwing the entire Russian army into battle and ignoring all the rules of war,” says George Soros, who senses that Xi may be withdrawing support from Putin by diplomatically advocating for peace.
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