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Putin believes that Ukraine is historically part of Russia and it's independent existence is only tolerable if the country is firmly in Russia's sphere of influence.
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He believes the CIA engineered a coup that overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine and replaced it with a western puppet regime in 2014.
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He believes the modern nationalist Ukrainian state draws from the legacy of Nazi collaboration during WWII and poses a direct threat to Russian national security. Removing this particular nationalist influence is a key goal of the military operation, which he seeks to achieve through negotiation.
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Russia expressed interest in joining NATO during the Clinton administration but was rejected. This lead Russia to feel geopolitically isolated and cut off from the whole western project.
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He believes the west is obsessed with weakening Russia as much as possible and that NATO is nothing more than an anti-Russian alliance.
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Putin thinks China is now more powerful than the United States and more relevant.
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He believes our government is controlled by an entrenched bureaucracy that cannot be changed through elections.
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He believes the US and European Union are extorting taxpayers to fund Ukraine's war. He sees no reason why the US continues to support Ukraine.
Putin Interview Summarized
RUSSIAN SALT MINES 🇷🇺
Russia supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Russia and America need to be great allies again and destroy the NWO.
Russia remains haunted by a past that they have since moved past, but for some reason while we forgive Germany for the Nazis, we won't let our former allies move past their --fairly brief, all things considered -- communist history in much the same way that America is not allowed to move past slavery.
Where Russia moved forward mostly of their own accord -- with outside pressure, of course -- despite figures like Putin rightfully criticizing the decision that would weaken them, America willingly resolved our own internal struggles and essentially served as the figurehead of a movement that ended slavery in most civilized portions of the world, again of our own accord.
Yet only Germany gets to be forgiven, and now you can't even really reference Nazis without being censored (a trend we saw starting in Germany where they essentially 1984ed it) nor can you reference Hitler in many circumstances that you used to be able to.
I find it personally offensive everyone else but Russia and America are able to move beyond bad pasts, and I have to question why that is.
That's because Germany is a vassal at best, strap at worst. Russia is not, thus it is a potential rival to the US elites who want it broken up, looted and subjugated. They want the same for the citizenry of the US, so similar rhetoric.
I have not hear the "strap" term used before like this. Always looking to expand my vocabulary & analogy ideas.
What is meant by "a strap" at worst?
Satrap. Puppet governor of a region under the Persian (?) Empire.