"Putin was sitting in isolation and gradually going insane": Expert assesses whether the war against Ukraine is linked to COVID

Political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman stated that in 2020 the world experienced significant political turbulence due to the coronavirus, and this may have even influenced Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Politeka reports.
He spoke about this in his blog.

As the expert notes, COVID has returned — not in a literal sense, but politically. Angela Merkel, he says, gave a major interview to the Hungarian project Partizán, in which she stated that the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war began because the Baltic states and Poland refused to engage with the Kremlin. She also named the coronavirus as a key cause of the war.

"One person agrees with her to some extent — the author of the book The Bat Effect, Mikhail Sheitelman. In 2020, I wrote about this as well. I didn’t write about the war, of course — I couldn’t have predicted it — but I wrote that a huge number of political upheavals around the world were directly connected to the coronavirus," Sheitelman says.

As an example, the expert mentions the 2020 revolution in Kyrgyzstan, which he even called “a runny-nose revolution.” He explains that at the time, the Chinese closed the border, and Kyrgyz people relied on cross-border trade with China. When they lost access to that market, they staged a revolution. He also links the mass protests against Lukashenko to COVID. Lukashenko had rigged elections in both 2010 and 2015, yet at most 10,000 people protested. But in 2020, a million people across Belarus came out — all because of the closed borders.

"And Merkel thinks the same way about the Russian-Ukrainian war. Putin was sitting in isolation and gradually going insane. She says it gently, but essentially, she’s saying that Putin was in isolation, gradually losing his mind, and no one could explain anything to him. He refused to meet with anyone. Merkel wanted to meet with Putin, but he refused, so she couldn’t even try to guide him onto the right path," Mikhail Sheitelman explains.

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