For the past a decade or so, kremlin has focused on trying to bring ukraine back into its orbit. There are lots of people in moscow who think that reinvigorating russian imperial control over eastern europe would be a good thing for russia. The reality is that what we're talking about here is not primarily russia's security. And i think it's implausible that ave kremlin seriously feels threatened by native forces,. which, anyway, are only a tiny fraction of what they were during the pike of the cold war.

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