Why would Russia want to recreate the Warsaw Pact? What’s in it for Russia? They will never be obedient satellites of the Kremlin.
“Why would Russia want to recreate the Warsaw Pact? What’s in it for Russia? They will never be obedient satellites of the Kremlin.”
They envision, with futility or not, a Europe under their political and economic control and in geopolitical opposition to the United States, whom they seek to isolate as the Soviet Union was isolated. Putin is simply pursuing a modified version of the old Soviet CHEKA/NKVD/KGB worldview of world domination under their personal autocratic Russian leadership. This was all they have been preparing for since they forced Boris Yeltsin out of control of Russia.