Link to putin saying this? I do not believe it exists.
The first step was to swallow Ukraine. This nation was attacked and invaded without cause.
Choose 1:
A. Putin is a threat to the entire world.The globohomopedos have pushed and prodded Russia to generate a war. Russia appealed to international organizations to resolve the issues, but was not given relief.
B. Russia is weak and cannot even beat Ukraine.
It is a Russian false propaganda that it's cost and many here bought it.
Just no. We are talking about bleeding the USA dry and ignoring the destruction of our own country.
You just compiled and repeated western intelligence propaganda narratives. You *may* be a zeeper.
You just lost 2 helicopters near Bakhmut. Chasiv Yar by “Victory” day!
It's a constant them on Russian TV. Putin himself said it to the Duma, in 2012 if I remember the book rightly. Links to audio won't help, unless you speak Russian. Do you? I can pull some URLs out of Keir Giles' book "Russia's War on Everybody". And of course there's the manifesto of "Putin's Brain", Aleksandr Dugin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
We'll leave aside Ivan Ilyin's little book "Our Tasks" for the moment. It's mentioned in two or three recent books I have handy, but I can't find an English translation. Ilyin goes beyond restoring the Soviet borders to creating a Russkiy Mir "extending from Lisbon to Vladivostok". It's reported to be required reading in every military school under Russian control.