“It is a US Deep State/Totalitarian Globalist vs Sovereign Nation-State war.”
No. This has Putin has always planed to bring back 15 member republics after the 1991 the Soviet Union implosion. This Putin pattern of “Transnistrian” policy uses controls ‘zones’ of frozen conflicts in Moldova (Transnistria region), Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and now in Ukraine.
Putin uses this wide pattern of creating separatist conflicts to create corruption and criminality as ‘Trojan horses’ to block progress in reform-minded periphery countries.
This Putin tactic part of his geopolitical strategy to create conflict zones to prevent countries from entering NATO and integrating into the European Union. CONFLICTS in these by Russia is part of a Russia imperialistic plan to regain strategic points of its LOST EMPIRE.
‘Transnistrian policy’
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