For many Western elites, Russia is still more than the Russian Federation – Bortnik
Many old European elites perceive Russia as having a legitimate right to return its former territories. For them, the states formed after the collapse of the USSR are something temporary and borderline.
Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the air of the UkrLife video blog, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
«Following the talks between Putin and Trump, Russia began to raise the stakes even further. Taking advantage of the lack of American reaction to all this, it raises the stakes even more and its appetites grow. Like, if you don’t agree to what we offer you, remember – withdraw your troops from the regions, non-NATO status, change your internal humanitarian policy, we will want this too. And anyway, what are we talking about, this is a civil war on the territory of the Soviet Union.
Here this is how Russia is now presenting this reality. In Russia, of course, most of society applauds this, this is what they want. But I'll tell you, Despite the specificity of this picture, I'm afraid that many people in the West think the same way. For them, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the current Russian Federation are all different forms of one state, which sometimes expands, sometimes shrinks in its space....
Especially if we are talking about old elites, the Cold War elites, older people. They still think in terms of the Soviet Union.“For them, these new countries that appeared on the post-Soviet map, for them, this is something temporary, border, buffer, situational,” Bortnik said.
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