“We are indeed in a second Cold War, we are going to have consequences worthy of a war at home”

Have we entered a third world war? In any case, this is what the former military commander-in-chief of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny says. The situation is flaring up between Ukraine and Russia, particularly with the recent phenomenon of internationalization of the conflict. This Wednesday, November 27, Saskia Violette’s team particularly questioned the justification of these comments.

“Until 1991 and the end of the USSR, we were afraid, it was the Cold War. Anxiety-inducing films were circulating everywhere. […] I think we are not in a hot war, but we are indeed in a second cold war“, says Ivan de Beauffort, professor of management at Solvay. “And we should probably be much more worried about the insidious consequences of attacks such as the paralysis of satellite systems, ruptures of communications cables, cyberattacks on sensitive centers or even the economic consequences, for example on Germany, today ‘today.“A reflection shared by DH journalist Thibaut Van Hoof. Valérie Sohie, communications expert, is even more pessimistic, recalling Putin’s “irrational” character. “We are going to have consequences worthy of a war at home“, she also says.