Gordon asked him what he thinks Putin will do after the United States imposes anti-Russian sanctions, which US President Donald Trump may not stop at.
“Slow down sanctions. That is, look, he’s not sitting still, Putin. He didn’t sit down like, “Well, sanctions. What should we do?” Sends [в США своего спецпосланника] Kirill Dmitriev, he is on some CNN, Fox [выступает]”, answered the political strategist.
Sheitelman believes that Putin will try to resist in other ways.
“He will try to transfer the war. Now he needs new wars. Putin will definitely organize new wars around the world. […] For example, now Putin can start a war in some very unexpected place. For example, Bosnia. Here’s an excellent candidate, I think, Bosnia, Republika Srpska,” he said.
Republika Srpska is a formation in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where mainly Serbs live. The political strategist pointed out that in this entity there is now a debate about who will be president.
“This is a very good place. [для конфликта]. The Europeans will have something to do if something like the Kosovo (once) conflict is started there now. By the way, I think Putin has such tools. He was thrown out of Montenegro, where he tried to directly organize the assassination of the prime minister, a military coup. And that’s it, Montenegro has already, so to speak, embraced and accepted NATO, and soon it will be a member of the European Union. […] But Bosnia is still a big question mark. There is just a huge zone where Russians have great opportunities,” he said.
Context
In September, the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted that the Kremlin is trying to destabilize the Balkans and dismantle the 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended the 1992-1995 Bosnian War and created the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia.
ISW did not exclude the possibility that a large campaign could be organized to split and distract Europe’s attention.
