An analyst on the news said that Putin’s goal is to occupy the territories that used to belong to the Russian Empire. This is a dangerously uninsightful analysis.
Restoring the Russian Empire is Putin’s first step. His eventual goal is for Russia to become to the world in the XXI century what the US was in the XX. If you listen to the Russian propaganda, you will hear the following ideas repeated ad nauseam:
1. The US has entered a steep economic, political, spiritual, moral, intellectual, etc. decline. It is rapidly losing its influence on the world arena, and nothing can prevent it from becoming a backwards, insignificant country with no global importance.
2. A new world leader is urgently needed, and nobody can play this role better than Russia.
3. Russia has an exceptional degree of culture and spirituality, which makes it much better than the stupid and materialistic Americans and unintelligent and nonspiritual everybody else.
4. It logically follows from this that the world will be better off from being guided by the people whose language is the most beautiful, whose culture is the most cultured, whose soul is the most spiritual, and who have been, across centuries, the only consistent force for good on the planet.
Welcome to the new world order, everybody.
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