This article has aged badly. We now know that this actually goes back to 1991 as the Soviet collapsed ( was posted to my country's embassy in Moscow at the time and can verify the first few years). The idea that this Russia trying to get bigger is a hoax of horrendous proportions. Fortunately, academics such as Sachs and Meirsheimer have been able to expose the BS we have been subjected to. Just a pity that the west was prepared to sacrifice so many Ukrainian men.
This article has aged badly. We now know that this actually goes back to 1991 as the Soviet collapsed ( was posted to my country's embassy in Moscow at the time and can verify the first few years). The idea that this Russia trying to get bigger is a hoax of horrendous proportions. Fortunately, academics such as Sachs and Meirsheimer have been able to expose the BS we have been subjected to. Just a pity that the west was prepared to sacrifice so many Ukrainian men.