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The Death of Russia
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and the launching of the special operation in 2022 are not happening from international relations and the geopolitical standpoint of pure conquest on the part of the Russian state led by Vladimir Putin.
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Russia is trying to gain control of the Carpathian Mountains; the reason for this is that the Russians need to secure its western borders.
However, it is not just that superficial thinkers like Professor John Mearsheimer put forward the argument that the Russian expansion was due to the expansion of the European Union in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, throughout the former Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact members of the Soviet Union.
Geopolitical writer and strategist Peter Zihan’s argument is clear: for Russia to feel secure, it would need control over specific nations, inevitably leading to a war of conquest.
With this being the case, the argument for letting the Russians have their sphere of influence in Eastern Europe is sadly complete and utter nonsense or, at worse, capitulation to the Russian Federation.
What must be understood is that the Russians have primarily been invaded from the regions mentioned above and that the Russians now no longer have the population and military-industrial complex to fight for control of those landmasses.
The world may be witnessing Russia’s last war, marking the potential end of the predominant Russian ethnic group in Western Europe.
In practical terms, this could mean Russia will gradually disappear as a great power in the next twenty years.
