>Far from being a story of Euro-Atlantic sea power moving to dominate the Heartland, NATO enlargement since 1997 has overwhelmingly been a response to dynamic lobbying by former Warsaw Pact members. **Some, such as Poland, immediately sought sanctuary without waiting to see what sort of country the new Russian Federation might become.** Others made applications once Putin and the clan which captured the Russian state at the turn of the millennium revealed their intention to reverse rather than manage Russia’s imperial decline.
Poland didn’t need to wait.
Poland — and Eastern Europe and the Baltics in general — already knew.
Tl;dr: Author says that Russia claims the West see Ukraine as key to global conquest, but the West actually just likes to support democracy, after all.
The Kremlin forgot the fact that nobody is scared of them anymore.
Russian narratives ignore reality. USA started this war, Russia was under existential threat and the SMO was somehow needed, all is going according to plan and Russia has barely lift a finger so far…
The Russian narratives are for the Russian domestic TV – aka the ZZombie boxZ…
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>Far from being a story of Euro-Atlantic sea power moving to dominate the Heartland, NATO enlargement since 1997 has overwhelmingly been a response to dynamic lobbying by former Warsaw Pact members. **Some, such as Poland, immediately sought sanctuary without waiting to see what sort of country the new Russian Federation might become.** Others made applications once Putin and the clan which captured the Russian state at the turn of the millennium revealed their intention to reverse rather than manage Russia’s imperial decline.
Poland didn’t need to wait.
Poland — and Eastern Europe and the Baltics in general — already knew.
Tl;dr: Author says that Russia claims the West see Ukraine as key to global conquest, but the West actually just likes to support democracy, after all.
The Kremlin forgot the fact that nobody is scared of them anymore.
Russian narratives ignore reality. USA started this war, Russia was under existential threat and the SMO was somehow needed, all is going according to plan and Russia has barely lift a finger so far…
The Russian narratives are for the Russian domestic TV – aka the ZZombie boxZ…