> They’re vocally aiming to take the whole of Ukraine Putin (following Dugin) has expressed the goal of building a Russian empire stretching from Vladivostok t

> They’re vocally aiming to take the whole of Ukraine Putin (following Dugin) has expressed the goal of building a Russian empire stretching from Vladivostok to Lisbon. I suppose that's just sabre-rattling; but Leningrad is very exposed, at the end of a long land corridor bordered on either side by NATO members. I'm convinced he hopes to dominate all the land between Russia and the Baltic.