In his annual speech at Davos, billionaire investor George Soros has warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the beginning of the third world war and that the civilisation may not survive this war.
George Soros said in his speech on Tuesday that the world must mobilise all resources to bring the war to an early end and the best and perhaps only way to preserve the civilisation is to defeat Vladimir Putin as soon as possible. He also said that China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are tied together in an alliance that has no limits.
“The invasion may have been the beginning of the third world war and our civilisation may not survive it,” he said. “The invasion of Ukraine didn’t come out of the blue and Putin had informed Xi about it well in advance.”
Soros further noted that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met on February 4 at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and issued a long statement announcing that the cooperation between them has “no limits”.
“US and UK military experts certainly told their Chinese counterparts what was in store. Xi approved, but asked Putin to wait until the conclusion of the winter Olympics,” he said.
“For his part, Xi resolved to hold the Olympics in spite of the Omicron variant that was just beginning to spread in China. The organisers went to great lengths to create an airtight bubble for the competitors and the Olympics concluded without a hitch,” he said.
Sorors claimed that Xi Jinping never told the Chinese people that they had been inoculated with a vaccine that was designed for the original Wuhan variant and offers very little protection against new variants.
Soros in his speech further said that Vladimir Putin’s so-called “special military operation” didn’t unfold according to plan. He expected his army to be welcomed by the Russian speaking population of Ukraine as liberators but that is not what happened, he added.
While Putin seems to have recognised that he made a terrible mistake when he invaded Ukraine and he is now preparing the ground for negotiating a ceasefire, the ceasefire is unattainable because he cannot be trusted, Soros claimed. According to him, Putin will never start peace negotiations because that would be equivalent to resigning.
Soros also said Xi Jinping is bound to fail as giving Putin permission to launch an unsuccessful attack against Ukraine didn’t serve China’s best interests.
