Russia relinquished its claim to the Soviet states and the Warsaw Pact countries in the Belovezha Accords.
Putin is rewriting history by denying it happened.
Don’t take my word for it... This is Russia’s presidential library.
https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619792
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The preamble of the document stated that “the USSR as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality no longer exists.”
The Accords and other signed documents were ratified by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on Dec. 12, 1991. At the same time Russia dissolved the Union Treaty of 1922.
Russia signed away all claim to any part of Ukraine. Nobody forced them to do it.
So maybe you should ask yourself where Putin gets his ideas from. He’s got no more right to the Donbas than the British have a right to USA states.
The James Baker promise to Ed Sheverdnaze was that NATO would not expand into the Warsaw Pact region much less into the Soviet Union. By abolishing the USSR and abolishing the Warsaw Pact, the independent Russia itself tore up the promise in front of over a dozen other countries.
It then pledged to respect the independence, self sovereignty and territorial integrity of all new independent states.
Putin and Medvedev regard that as a tragedy. They’re like a pair of divorcees who think they still are the boss of their ex wives.
Whether he is re-writing it, his concern are for the Russian ethnics that are being abused by the local inhabitants, despite having an equal claim to the land they inhabit.
Russia considered the pact still enforceable. For the sake of peace, we should have also considered it enforceable. The globalists engineered this war to bring down Russia and you are in agreement with the globalists.
Talking with Russia would have been better than surreptitiously trying to take Ukraine, and allow Russian ethnic genocide to take place in Ukraine for the sake of the $14 trillion in mineral wealth.
But that’s just me.