“Russia Has Plans to Continue the War, Not Only in Ukraine.”
I remember when the invasion started, Russia’s official position was that NATO must withdraw all its forces from the former Warsaw Pact countries.
In those countries, Russian language media, and Russian officials including Foreign Minister Lavrov, former President and Prime Minister Medvedev, and Putin himself have long made clear that they intended to reintegrate the Baltics into Russia, and to integrate Poland, as well as reassert Russian dominance over the other former Warsaw Pact countries.
So-called “Putin’s Philosopher”, Aleksandr Dugin, has explicitly promoted the view that Russia should extend across all of Eurasia, to the Atlantic Ocean.
Putin’s Military aggression did not begin with Ukraine (Chechnya, Georgia, Syria), and it is unlikely to end with Ukraine, if it is left up to him.
He must be stopped.
Great post, spot on.