Michael Morell on the Top Global Threats in 2022
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Russian Foreign Policy - Russia's National Security Interests
Russia is acting fully consistent with how it sees its national security interests. One of russia's key foreign policy goals is controlling, or having significant influence in those parts of the former soviet union that are no longer part of russia. Ukranians and russians are both ethnically slavs. Most important putin fears that what ens in ukraine could spill over into russia. This is why he reacted as harshly as he did to the revolt in ukrain eight years ago.
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