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Yep, I don't want to sound like a Putin apologist, but everything seems to point to Western escalation in this respect.
by yonaguska 5y ago
Yep, I don't want to sound like a Putin apologist, but everything seems to point to Western escalation in this respect.
- nullifidian 5y agoIndependent countries joining defensive pacts is their internal business. Putin wants what he thinks is Russia's god ordained sphere of influence(imperialism), and what's more considers Ukraine as Russia's to rule(imperialism). Everything that was said, and different things were said to different audiences, were just distractions/post-decision excuses. It has nothing to do with defense, and everything to do with imperialism, and generations of indoctrination in it. Baltic states(already in NATO) are as close to Moscow as Harkiv. And defense wise Russia will be much weaker in the decades to come with an isolated economy. Putin wants a poor desperate and isolated North Korea like country, he doesn't want a prosperous Russia -- prosperity is not too compatible with authoritarianism.
- tscherno 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
- nullifidian 5y agoPeople like to post this, but Dugin is mostly irrelevant in Russia, and I doubt he had any influence on Putin's decision making. Putin's imperialism is of his own biographical origins.
- Ambix 5y agoExactly. And there still many people shocked by NATO'1999 bombarding of Serbia.