Vladimir Putin on Homeland Security

	Vladimir Putin on Homeland Security

2013 Euromaidan protests: dangerous Ukraine nationalism

The central contention of Putin's speech [this week] is that Ukraine and Russia are, in historical terms, essentially inseparable. "Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space," he said. This illustrates what Putin means by "the virus of nationalism."

"Radicals and nationalists, including and primarily those in Ukraine, are taking credit for having gained independence," he says. Russian control over Ukraine, he argues, has been replaced by a different kind of foreign rule: that of the West. After the 2013 Euromaidan protests, which toppled pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych, "Ukraine itself was placed under external control--a colony with a puppet regime."

A Western-backed government, Putin warns, threatens the very survival of the Russian state. He warns of Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons with Western assistance, joining NATO, and ultimately serving as a launching pad for an American assault on Russia.

Source: Vox.com on Foreign Influences: "NATO expansion" , Feb 23, 2022

Ukraine and Georgia in NATO is threat to Russia

Ukraine isn't joining NATO anytime soon, and President Joe Biden has said as much. Still, NATO's open-door policy--the alliance's foundational principle that any qualified European country could join--cuts both ways. To the West, it's a statement of autonomy; to Russia, it's a threat. The core of the NATO treaty is Article 5, a commitment that an attack on any country is treated as an attack on the entire alliance--meaning any Russian military engagement with a Ukraine as NATO member would theoretically bring Moscow into conflict with the US and the 27 other NATO members.

The prospect of Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO has antagonized Putin at least since President George W. Bush expressed support for the idea in 2008. "That was a real mistake," said the ambassador to Ukraine under President Bill Clinton. "It drove the Russians nuts. It created expectations in Ukraine and Georgia, which then were never met. And so that just made that whole issue of enlargement a complicated one."

Source: Vox.com on Foreign Influences: "NATO expansion" , Jan 27, 2022

Kremlin abandons plans to freeze defense spending

The Kremlin has decided to abandon plans to freeze defense spending, which were included in the three-year budget adopted last year. The total amount of military expenditures in the 2022-24 federal budget will increase by 15%, according to the explanatory note to the draft budget, TASS reports. According to the latest updated list published by the Finance Ministry, 3.381 trillion rubles ($46 billion) will be allocated for military purposes this year - 73 billion ($1 billion) more than in 2020. Source: UA Wire on Foreign Influencers , Sep 22, 2021

Moscow's strategic objectives include "social turmoil" in US

Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a "mentally unstable" Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia's national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.

The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present. They agreed a Trump White House would help secureÿMoscow's strategic objectives, among them "social turmoil" in the USÿand a weakening of the American president's negotiating position.

Russia's three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin's signature. By this point Trump was the frontrunner in the Republican nomination race. A report prepared by Putin's expert department recommended Moscow use "all possible force" to ensure a Trump victory.

Independent experts say the report--"No 32-04\vd"--appears to be genuine.

Source: The Guardian on Trump Impeachment , Jul 15, 2021

Russia returns to top 5 defense spending countries

Russia re-entered the world's top five defense spending nations in 2019 after briefly falling to sixth place the previous year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)'s latest annual report. Russia now ranks fourth in the world for defense spending, with $65.1 billion in expenditures in 2019 compared to $61.4 billion the previous year. Source: The Moscow Times on Foreign Influencers , Apr 27, 2020

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