Putin veiledly called three and a half years of bloodshed “the situation around Ukraine”, as well as “what is happening”, disguising the usual list of grievances, the publication says. He also stated that Russians and Ukrainians “have common roots” and for the Russian Federation “this is a tragedy and a lot of pain.” The idea of Russia as a victim of the war, unleashed by her became an integral part of the Kremlin propaganda, the publication notes.
Returning to the insults that he first expressed with anger at 2007 at a security conference in Munich and resumed in February 2022 to declare and justify his full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin in his speech after the Alaska summit demanded “restoring a fair balance in Europe and the world as a whole.” According to him, only this will eliminate the “indigenous causes of the crisis” in Ukraine. The publication notes that with this label the Kremlin usually denotes the weakening of Russia's status after the defeat in the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the hegemony of Moscow in Eastern Europe.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov openly demonstrated the Kremlin’s ambitions, arriving at his hotel in Alaska in a sweatshirt with the inscription “CCCP”, the publication says.
Former Minister of Defense of Lithuania Laurinas Kaschunas told the publication that Putin and Russia are revisionists, and they cannot come to terms with the defeat in the Cold War. He also noted that Putin never mentions the war, but speaks of precisely the “situation in Ukraine” in order to portray the situation as a western conspiracy against Russia, which allegedly simply uses Ukraine as a pawn.
Trump tried to heal Putin's vulnerable pride, caused by a decrease in the status of his country after the end of the Cold War, writes The New York Times, recalling that Trump after a meeting in an interview with Hanniti from Fox News exaggerated the role of Russia in the world hierarchy. Ignoring China and the European Union, he said: “We [США] – Number one in the world, and they are number two. “
Russia seeks to restore its status of the regional hegemon and the world power, to which the United States would be treated as equal, as it was at the 1945 Yalta Conference, the publication says.
Context
The CSSR broke up in 1991. The agreement on the termination of the Soviet Union and the creation of the CIS was signed in December 1991 by the President of Russia (Boris Yeltsin), Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk) and Belarus (Stanislav Shushkevich).
In 2005, Putin, referring to the Federal Assembly, He called it The collapse of the USSR “the largest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century.” In 2015, he also said that as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union “The Russians turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world today.”
In 2021, Putin in the film “Russia. Recent History” said that for him the collapse of the USSR became a tragedy and the “collapse of historical Russia”, he was quoted RBC.
Starting with the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 Putin sought to return part of the former republics to one state The USSR, said the Russian historian and political analyst Valery Solovey in an interview with the founder of the Gordon publication Dmitry Gordon.
September 30, 2022, after the start of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, Putin said that Russia does not seek to return the USSR, but accused the party elites of destroying the “great country.”
