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Russia has lost the Ukraine war: Ex-FS Shyam Saran

Tue, 31 May 2022   |  Reading Time: < 1 minute

New Delhi, May 30 (PTI) Russia has lost the Ukraine war as it would not have achieved any rational objective by the end of it and China had made a “wrong bet” on Moscow, former foreign secretary Shyam Saran said on Monday.

During a discussion after the launch of his new book “How China Sees India and The World”, Saran said the Chinese perception and also that of the Russians was that “this is our moment”. “Making that bet with the Russians, that is the bet which I believe has gone wrong (for China). Many people said you should not predict a Russian defeat, I am not predicting a Russian defeat but it is my genuine judgment that Russia has lost this war,” he said.

“Why has Russia lost this war, because if it is going to leave Ukraine in a complete rubble, what has that done for Russia. Secondly, if the idea was to prevent further expansion of NATO nearer Russian borders, has not already the opposite been achieved. Sweden and Finland were on the threshold of joining NATO,” Saran  said. What could be a rational objective that has been achieved, he asked.

The bet China has made on Russia and on what the new world order would look like has gone wrong, he said. In the book launched by former vice president Hamid Ansari, Saran writes an account of the India-China relationship and how China perceives our country.

Saran questions, among other things, the Chinese claim that it was the most important and influential civilisation of the ancient world, arguing that it was India who played that role.



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Kalidan Singh

May 31, 2022
True. I am more concerned about the following. Given our espoused neutrality, which implicitly is a support for Russia no matter how much we deny to others, did we also lose our status in the international community? Whether it looks so or not, or to whom it looks so or not, only time will tell. I am even more concerned about the following. Russia's current state tells us their armor is ineffective, their intelligence is lousy, their logistics laughable, the morale and training for the troops sub par. Virtually everything we own and fight with is Russian made. Moskva is a submarine now; no anti-missile tech. Russian air force does not have air superiority. Western intelligence is enabling Ukrainians to inflict heavy losses (aim their artillery). Where does that leave our military capability? Do we have the drones, the satellites, the logistics, the training, the necessary man power? Do we have the satellites to pin point locations of Chinese and Pakistani troops and insurgents? Ukraine is filled with smoldering carcasses of Russian tanks and armored troop carriers (we have a lot of Russian tanks). Are we adapting, innovating, improvising fast enough? The key question is: our braves are ready for a conventional war. This is the new era of warfare.

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