Poland's former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said Thursday he believes that global solidarity in economic sanctions against Russia would lead President Vladimir Putin to change his aggressive policy in Ukraine.
"We can quickly win against Putin, but we need solidarity," Walesa told The Associated Press in an interview.
He said concerted and consistent decisions "not to buy something, not to sell something" would allow the world to "quickly lead Putin and Russia toward ending this idea of struggle."
"We need Russia," he said. "Russia means great opportunities, Russia is a huge country. So we need to help it to start thinking in the Western way."
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... Walesa said that Putin's policy of aggression against Ukraine was "hard to understand" in the 21st century but could result from a historic lack of democracy in Russia.
"Russia has never had democracy, it was never in this culture and it always needed an external enemy to keep internal order," he said. ...Read the full story HERE.
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