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Re:Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii? by bigdict on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:44PM (#30961619)
> Putin aims for territorial expansion to reclaim the USSR plus some buffer space

What is this claim even based on?

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Re:Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii? by tymofiy on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:52PM (#30962364)
On the official Kremlin demand that NATO leaves all the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact states. https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en
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Re:Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii? by bigdict on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:01PM (#30962463)
> territorial expansion to reclaim the USSR plus some buffer space

> NATO leaves all the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact states

Are those equivalent?

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Re:Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii? by mezentius on Friday April 08, 2022 @06:05PM (#30963084)
The people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania certainly see it as equivalent, which is why they wanted to join NATO in the first place. Russia had been attempting to destabilize the governments of those countries by providing support to fringe parties trying to stir up the Russian-speaking minority populations, which could serve as a pretext for an "intervention" similar to that which we're seeing in Ukraine (based, supposedly, on support for a Russian-speaking minority population in the east).
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Re:Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii? by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:16AM (#30966432)
It is based on Mr Putin's own words in February 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/putin-...

https://notesfrompoland.com/2019/12/23/putin-blames-poland-f...

I know people in Poland who are alarmed at the threat to their country embodied in by this rhetoric. To say nothing of Finland, Estonia etc and Ukraine.

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