Burdizzo said:
he aspires to reconstruct the old Soviet Union,
Stating things like this as fact is western propaganda. It works both ways between Russian propaganda and western propaganda though. Truth is always closer to the middle.
I don't believe Russia is a threat to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, etc. Even if in the future, Belarus decides on their own to rejoin Russia, Russia is not trying to take over Europe.
Putin, nor anyone else in Russia, has said they want anything of the sort. Western propaganda has programmed this into peoples' minds about Russian expansion.
Since the USSR broke up in 1991, 34 years ago, Russia has had to protect Chechnya from terrorists in the first fighting there, then responded to bombings from Chechnyans in Russia before going to fight there a second time (1990s), supported a large pro-Russian separatist movement in Georgia against its own government (2008), annexed Crimea when their own people rose up against its own government to rejoin Russia (2014), and they currently support the pro-Russian movement of the majority of the people in Donbas.
However, if not for massive corruption, western/CIA-led coups on its government, western bio labs set up next door, the constant threats of NATO expansion next door so military bases can be set up there, bluffs about not caring about "minor incursions", and an extremely embarrassing weak Afghan exit, Russia never would have made a single move into Donbas in 2022.
Extremely foolish miscalculations by US/Nato and the west, as sanctions have not only not really hurt Russia that much, but that and sabotaging a subsea energy pipeline that should have provided prosperity and security (mutual interest in success) for both Russia and Europe have driven Russia further away from us and closer with China, a real threat, while we waste hundreds of billions of dollars to a corrupt regime and allocate a significant amount of assets and artillery over there where there should have been zero threat to us or Nato.
There is no logic that a peace deal in Ukraine now that includes Russia controlling Donbas in exchange for commitments from both sides about reconstruction and not expanding nato will lead to future Russian expansion campaigns in the Baltic states or anywhere else. They are weak and can't actually do anything that really threatens US. Just stop provoking them and they will be quiet. In fact, while they are not good guys or innocent of everything, it would behoove the west to pull them closer to our side and let them profit from selling their vast natural resources to the west, because China is in position for world domination while our propaganda machine programs everyone to fear and hate Russia because Russia is trying to reunite the USSR.
