Russia’s demonstrations of new types of weapons do not make much of an impression on the West because the Kremlin tries to use such threats far too often.
This was stated in an interview with Ukrinform by Czech analyst, Vice-Rector of CERVO University in Prague, former Czech government adviser on national security, and diplomat Tomáš Pojar, commenting on the Kremlin’s statements regarding the recent tests of the Sarmat missile.
“Due to the inflation of threats coming from Moscow and the sheer volume of statements about various ‘state-of-the-art’ weapons, these threats are much less effective today than they used to be. If someone wants to make threats, they should do so less frequently so that others still take them seriously,” Pojar noted.
He pointed out that this test did not generate a significant media response in Europe. And if something similar had happened four years ago, this topic would have been much more prominent than it is today, the analyst added.
Also, he acknowledged that some people in the West take these threats seriously and “tend to yield to them to a certain extent.” But overall, Pojar believes, this new demonstration of military force by Russia has no fundamental impact.
