Former Canadian Ambassador Alexander predicted the Russian economy “bleeding” because of Ukraine 
invasion of Ukraine. Former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan Chris Alexander wrote about this in an article for the Canadian Globe and Mail.
In his opinion, “large-scale and blatant military aggression” will result in international isolation for Moscow. At the same time, the countries of the West and the NATO bloc will have to come to the rescue of Ukraine with all determination to “support it in the fight,” the diplomat added.
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Alexander also indicated that Canada should impose preventive sanctions on Moscow.
In November, The New York Times reported, citing American and European officials, that Russia was allegedly ready to invade Ukraine and it would be time to prevent her, the Western states have little left. The attack could happen soon enough, the newspaper noted.
In addition, Bloomberg reported that, according to United States intelligence, Russia intends to attack Ukraine in 2022 from three sides. According to Ukrainian intelligence, this will happen in late January or early February.
At the same time, Russia has repeatedly denied information about an allegedly impending invasion of Ukraine. Thus, President Vladimir Putin indicated that the possibility of bringing Russian troops to Ukraine was discussed at the beginning of the year, but this has not yet happened. In turn, the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov also assured that Moscow is not going to attack anyone, and called the hysteria that is currently being whipped up in the Western media on this topic unacceptable.