Putin has put all of his broken eggs into the one basket of assuring the Russian people that the loss of their fathers, sons and brothers to 'his' war will be the start of remaking the U.S.S.R.
Oh boy. I wonder where you got this from but I think I have an idea.
The West knew Russia would act this way long before Putin was even in power, Yeltsin himself warned Clinton in the ’90s that NATO expansion would cross a line and be seen as a threat to Russia. Years later, William Burns, then U.S. Ambassador to Russia, came to a similar conclusion in his “Nyet Means Nyet” memo, showing that opposition to NATO expansion wasn’t just Putin’s view but widely shared across the Russian political establishment. So this “his war” narrative is complete nonsense. This objection to NATO expansion began before Putin supposedly just woke up one morning and decided “give me USSR or give me death,” which is about how some of you seem to imagine it all played out.
Interesting how the people most worried about Russian propaganda are often the ones being propagandized the hardest by western media.
