“You have to see Putin and Russia as an expansionist power,” retired Lieutenant General. Keith kelogFor President Trump’s special messenger Ukraine and Russia, recently accepted. “He wants to re-establish the Russian Empire-look at the history.”
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The acquisition of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova is the initial phase of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reunion of the Soviet socialist Republic of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their belief was that three non-Nato and non-European Union countries could be brought back in small order without any intervention from the West under Soviet rule.
He was wrong.
After three and a half years of war in Ukraine, Russia has faced 1.1 million The number of casualties encounters economic collapse and decreased to the state dependent on external sources. Putin’s Russia now depends on the support to maintain its war efforts from China, North Korea, Iran and Chechnya, and its Collective safety treaty organization The fracture is done.
Nevertheless, Putin has continued his current course of action. The number of casualties and welfare of Russian citizens, especially outside Moscow or St. Petersburg, do not focus a primary focus in their strategic calculations. Their central objective remains Ukraine’s complete capitulation and subjugation, a goal that has not yet been felt.
Despite the failures, Putin constantly seeks methods of strength of the project. He has now twisted to call Russia’s past ghosts – starting with changing the name of Volgograd city “Stalingrad“Parivartan, which insists on Putin deception, is purely a local matter, the aim is to fulfill the memories of fear and respect to Russia once – a world power.
Nickname name “Stalin” – “Man of Steel,” Soviet dictator Joseb adopted by Dazugashwili – exposes strength and fear. Remember Russian Stalin Political purse Purses continued after World War II in the late 1930s and in 1953 until his death. Historian William D. Rubinstein estimated in his book “”Massacre“Stalin was responsible for the death of at least 7 million people, or about 4.2 percent of the total population of the USSR.
Russian Gupta police recall the iron rule of Gulagon and Stalin. Only after her death, when Nikita Khrushchev came to power, would Russian citizens feel safe again in their own country.
Putin accepts Stalin effect – Both internal and exterior. Emphasizing that “it is wrong to forget Stalin’s role in victory in the great patriotic war.” It is also a message for Russian citizens – the state above all – and a message that Ukrainians know all well.
Putin’s visit to Memori Lane in Stalin Yuga, however, may finally reach a road. Trump, in a high welcome step, is posted on the truth social Ukraine is winning And that, along with the purchase of American weapons systems -with the help of the European Union, Ukraine is capable of retreating all its regions. This is the first time he has said anything like this.
Now that Trump is calling Putin, the dictator, known as “Grandpa in his bunker”, looks more like Khrushchev than Peter the Great on Telegram channels. Like the Cuba missile crisis, Putin, like Khrushchev, appears to be the red lines of an US President wrong.
Putin is financially facing the same dilemma. As Trump said in his true social post, Russia’s economy is implicating, especially its oil and energy sector. As We saw recentlyRussia may lose 1 million barrels of barrels a day due to Ukrainian deep-compatibility against Ukrainian oil and energy infrastructure, including hit at 16 of 38 Oil Refineries in Russia since early August.
For Putin, it can change their Mikhail Gorbachev moment in time. When the Soviet military damage in Afghanistan costs under Gorbachev, the people of Russia, including its army, were enough – especially MothersGorbachev Avoided the coup of coupBut only as a weak leader of a union in collapse.
Putin, in front of its current failures, needs to create a distraction in Eastern Europe – especially in Poland, Finland or Baltic states. He needs a NATO missCol – a threat to the Russian regime – to justify a complete gathering for Russian people.
This can explain recent Russian drone attacks and three MiG -31 aircraft in Poland that overfines Estonian airspace for 12 minutes last week, while equipped with missiles. In contrast, Putin only misunderstood Trump and realized that he would support NATO for the fall of Ukraine.
In any way, Putin missed. NATO has replied by installing Eastern orange Air patrolling to protect your eastern flank – an active air defense to combat the operation of Russian drones and fighter jets. Poland and Ukraine are in active discussion to install a no-fly zone in western Ukraine-something we have called for a long time.
A defeated Russia in Ukraine will solve many problems. Last week we argued that Putin was winning World War IIThis week, for his great credit, Trump said, “Not so fast!”
Colonel (Rit.) Jonathan SweetHe served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the US European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014.Mark tothWrite on national security and foreign policy.
