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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

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Putin's Legacy, What Motivates Him?

After 2014, the United States and NATO began to a policy of moving to effectively integrate Ukraine into the NATO command. Putin objected, other Russian leaders objected, they're unified on this, but didn't do much. Joe Biden expanded the program of what U.S. military journals called a de facto integration of Ukraine within NATO. We're now practically up to the invasion. I presume what he's been saying all along, namely establishing his legacy as a leader who overcame the extensive destruction of Russia. It may have further ambitions as to dominating and controlling Ukraine very likely.

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