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Topic Started: Jul 14 2015, 08:00 PM (80 Views)
Polar Svalbard

So as most of you should know a year ago Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This has sparked international outrage, and theory that can quite be true. Is Putin trying to remake the USSR without the communism. He made the Eurasian Union, which could quite possibly become just like the Soviet Union.
I think that Putin is smarter than he seems and will not try to do this. Although its quite possible. So where is Russia heading?
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Shanowinn
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So as I understand, the justification was there being a large quantity of Russians/Ethnic Russians (not sure what the difference would be except maybe citizenship with Ukraine while still being Russian ethnically) in the relevant portions of Ukraine, and those Russians weren't being treated right(?)

So I wonder if there are any other places in Eastern Europe like that. If there were, theoretically they could do the same thing...

BUT I am not sure it's very likely or plausible in actuality.
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Polar Svalbard

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Mubaru
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A very informal answer ~ I read an article not that long ago, on the future path of Russia, that said something along the lines of this. Also, from a more personal perspective, I have friends in Russia, who I went to boarding school with in High School, who have told me that they are scared for the future of their country. They tell me that they see the culture of Russia is changing, and that people are promoting a sort of "bellicose Nationalism", that is really just a negative form of Russian Pride, that has created a scary environment for most Russians. I as absolutely dumbfounded, when I found the same wording and phrases used in a BBC article on the subject, not around 5 months later;

Taking a line from the article, that I spoke of earlier, a Russian tells a BBC correspondent;

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"I've sent my family to live abroad," he tells me. "It's better that way. I've sold everything, and now I commute. The health service here is crumbling, and so are schools. Sanctions have started to bite, but it's not that - it's the political atmosphere. It's stifling and it's getting worse. Nobody knows what will happen next, but it doesn't feel like a good place for the liberals."


Another tells the correspondent;

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"I don't know if you in England know the story about the frog, who sits in a pan of warm water on the top of the stove. He's happy. And then someone lights the stove beneath, and gradually, the water gets hotter. The frog is happy, he's comfortable. But soon the water will boil - and he probably won't get out in time because he doesn't realise what's happening. I'm scared of being that frog - trapped in a boiling pot, unable to get out."

Continuing in the article;

Olya's fears grew as the troubles in Ukraine spiralled into conflict, causing blazing rows that split her family - and many others too. "Some believe America will use what's happening in Ukraine to attack Russia - and they say that we should attack first because that's the best defence," she tells me.


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"You hear it all the time on the news. Everything is interpreted as being aimed against Russia. It's absurd. Americans don't spend their lives scheming against us, but the authorities here think and talk as though they do. And many believe it. The rhetoric today is like something from another era - the Soviet era. I feel as though we're asked every day to make a choice between being true patriots or leaving Russia.

"I'm not leaving. I'm Russian and I love my country. But sometimes my country is hard to love."

Tanya and her husband are putting money aside for their daughters so in a few years time the girls can travel and perhaps study abroad.

"If our borders are still open then," adds Tanya, with a sigh. "I remember the Soviet Union - we were trapped and we couldn't escape. That's how I grew up. I just hope it doesn't happen again."



You can read the whole article here; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32976294
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I read that article too. Very interesting.

I think Putin is playing to the Russian masses through these actions. He's whipping them up against the West to better himself and the oligarchs.

When looked at from the perspective of what is best for the Russian nation, his foreign policy is actually pretty dumb, in my opinion. He got the Crimean Peninsula, which the Russian Navy already had access too, and in return our sanctions have crippled his economy.

When looked at from the perspective of what is best for Putin, however, it makes sense. He wants the people to think the West is trying to bring them down, that it's Russia vs. The World, and Putin is the only one who can save them.
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Kamieniec Podolski

I think what Putin's doing is actually good for Europe. Europe needs an enemy.
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TheDictator

Im on Putin's side. If he wants to unify the Ruski's, then let him. And this is good for Finlands economy as we are one of the only nation's who have no sanctions against Russia
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