For NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, war is peace. He explicitly said during a speech yesterday to the Annual Conference of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise that more weapons to Ukraine equals peace. “If Putin wins in Ukraine, it will be a tragedy for the Ukrainians, but it is also dangerous for us,” he said. “The message to him and other authoritarian leaders will be that if they use military force, they will get what they want. It will make us more vulnerable. There will be no lasting peace if oppression and tyranny win over freedom and democracy.”
Stoltenberg asserted that most wars end at the negotiating table, and therefore, “What Ukrainians can achieve at the table depends on their strength on the battlefield.