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> Putin aims for territorial expansion to reclaim the USSR plus some buffer space What is this claim even based on?

• tymofiy 5y ago
  On the official Kremlin demand that NATO leaves all the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact states. https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en
  • bigdict 5y ago
    > territorial expansion to reclaim the USSR plus some buffer space > NATO leaves all the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact states Are those equivalent?
    • mezentius 5y ago
      The people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania certainly see it as equivalent, which is why they wanted to join NATO in the first place. Russia had been attempting to destabilize the governments of those countries by providing support to fringe parties trying to stir up the Russian-speaking minority populations, which could serve as a pretext for an "intervention" similar to that which we're seeing in Ukraine (based, supposedly, on support for a Russian-speaking minority population in the east).
• SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
  It is based on Mr Putin's own words in February 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/putin-speech-russia-empire-threat-ukraine-moscow https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/putin-... https://notesfrompoland.com/2019/12/23/putin-blames-poland-for-ww2-and-says-soviet-occupation-saved-lives/ https://notesfrompoland.com/2019/12/23/putin-blames-poland-f... I know people in Poland who are alarmed at the threat to their country embodied in by this rhetoric. To say nothing of Finland, Estonia etc and Ukraine.