It couldn’t be because a lot of Western leaders, including Biden, have said they’d like to change the Russian regime to ensure it acts in accordance with the infamous “Rule-Based Order. From Ivan Timofeev at azerbaycan24.com:
There will be no going back to the pre-2022 state of affairs. The US-led bloc has pushed Moscow too far By Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Club Programme Director & one of Russia’s leading foreign policy experts.© Getty Images/Pavel_Chag
There is an increasingly widespread view in Russia that the goal of the US – and the “collective West” it leads – is to achieve a “final solution” to the “Russian question.” The goals are believed to be defeating Russia, wrecking its military potential, restructuring its statehood, reshaping its identity and possibly eliminating it as a state, in its current form.
For a long time, this view remained on the periphery of foreign policy thinking. However, much has changed in the past year and a half. Today, this perception of the West’s goals has gone mainstream. Indeed, it seems quite rational, when placed into the proper context.
Meanwhile, Russia itself is pursuing a similar sort of policy towards the Ukrainian state, the existence of which in its former form and borders is perceived in Moscow as a key security challenge.
The historical experience of the last century shows that inflicting total defeat on an enemy and then rebuilding its statehood is the rule rather than the exception in foreign policy practice. There is an important difference to the conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries, when military defeat of the enemy was seen as a way of extracting concessions from it, but not of rebuilding its very foundations.
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the Russians are correct.
Prigo told his homie Vlad all about the coup putsch insurrection but they forgot to distribute the horny Viking helmets and recruit Florida man to steal the sacred arcane Pelosi lectern relic.