It was always ALL ABOUT EMPIRE

[David Morris]

https://twitter.com/podolyak_m/status/1535160895206211585?s=21&t=-C1Q8t2Q7EFjjYA9rwUwFw

Putin’s confession of land seizures and comparing himself with Peter the
Great prove: there was no "conflict", only the country’s bloody seizure
under contrived pretexts of people’s genocide. We should not talk about
"saving 🇷🇺 face", but about its immediate de-imperialization.

https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1535049109706506250?s=21&t=-C1Q8t2Q7EFjjYA9rwUwFw

President Putin likened himself to Russian monarch Peter the Great, the
tsar who led a conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war
against Sweden.  After 3+ months of war in Ukraine which he claimed was to
'denazify' & not occupy, he now says it straight: he is on a mission to
'return' land to Russia.  Russia is planning to unite most Ukrainian lands
into one “Russian region.”