Topic: National interests of Russia (Read 497 times)

What couldn't I say? You are moving away from the discussion of the topic. In your own words, you could not say anything concrete on the topic - one childish babble.

Poor baby. You haven't been able to tell that https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62780035 is in the thread.

I said everything in the thread.

There isn't anything more to say. It's clarified right here - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62780035.

As I understand it, you have nothing more to say on the topic. All the goals of the war outlined by Putin are failing. The West will not allow Russia to realize its national interests. Today, Ukraine has moved from defense to offensive and Russia has no chance to stop it.

Now you are talking about your wife. Sorry, I forgot you are a woman. Does it matter in your case?

The point is, the wife says, "Honey, you wear the pants in the family. You make all the decisions... but only as long as they are what I want."

Everybody (almost) wants a king... as long as the king does what they tell him to. Russians aren't any different.

 Your attempts to prove that democracy in Russia are unsuccessful. Russians are enetically incapable of democracy. They need a king, a leader, a dictator who decides everything for them. For the Russian people, democracy can result in the loss of the empire, which is contrary to their worldview.

That's what I like about you. You take a look at a post, and then you ask where the info is. But it is right in the post you were answering in the first place. I'll highlight it for you.

  What kind of honesty of the Russian government are we talking about? First, there is no Russian government. All its functions are performed by one person who has never told the truth.

You haven't been listening, again, to the many times I have posted in this forum how a Democracy is simply a Dictatorship by a group.

Russia has always been out-in-the-open about the fact that they are essentially a Dictatorship. Their people know it because they have been told and shown over and over. But the people of the US are just finding out, now, by all the bad things that Biden is doing to them.

Russian honesty in government is way better than in the US Dictatorship.

  Do not compare the free world with the Russian world, where there has always been a dictatorship of one person.

^^^ That is what the problem is... protecting national interests. Why is it a problem? Because no large nation can agree among its own people what its national interests are. Oh, sure. They all agree on things like prosperity and strength for the nation. But they never agree on the ways to achieve this.

Even if there is a majority of the people who all say, "We agree that we should do it this way," nobody gets into another person's mind to see what "this way" really means to somebody else.

The thing that happens is that a few shrewd people figure out ways to become government, and the people think that these government officials are working for them. But the government people are really working for themselves.

If the government people are wise, they will actually benefit themselves as well as the people. If they aren't wise, the whole country may be lost. The general populace never really has any say in it, even though they think they do, and even though it looks like they do to a great extent.

Same thing in Russia, the US, and almost every large country.

Every country in the world should protect their national interests. It is the responsibility of every country's citizens or heads of state.The two superpowers are trying to influence each other and use the tools Ukraine wants to get out of Russia and America wants to take over Ukraine and surround Russia.An attempt to divert from, but Russia will never allow its sovereignty to be violated that is why Russia is spending millions or billions of US dollars only on war because of only one reason.Their danger is very close because America has only one objective at any cost be it war or money or arms or various forms of aid to go along the Russian border if they can, they will create a military belt and surround Russia from all sides and try to control it, so that if Russia does anything forward, it will be blocked by America.main purpose Just as it is imperative for a rogue state to protect its own country's sovereignty, Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing just that, even though it looks like they are waging a war. Actually, no, if Ukraine agrees to stay out of the drama now and stay with Russia, then the war will end tomorrow. There would be no need for UN intervention and the entire world population would not be in danger When the former Soviet Union broke up, Russia gave its allies a certain certainty that they could not do anything that would interfere with Russia's actions, even if they wanted to do something European.Russia did not want to give there because Russia's interests depend on there In any alliance that harms Russian interests, the states of the former Union of Russia cannot go if they want to because they can go for peace or economic aid but Russia. They can't go to any complex that could compromise security. If they do, Russia will think they're going to attack them and try to resist them at all costs, like Sweden, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. Countries like Kyrgyzstan can't join the leadership even if they want to because NATO is the biggest threat to Russia and because of this NATO or American aggression, the old image of Russia has been shattered. Russia and China will bring danger in the coming days, no one wants to cut the house and bring crocodile Currently, NATO and other allied countries are secretly helping Ukraine with various military equipment, food and other materials, with the sole aim of defeating Russia.And Ukraine's territory needs to be revived so that the U.K. can easily join the fray and create another plan to break up Russia.I can finally say that Russia should take whatever steps are necessary to protect its own interests by negotiating a peace without going to these wars and if there is no other option. If action is taken then world peace will come and the people of the world will be able to eat and read and move and sleep in peace and a plea to the rest of the developed world not to pour oil instead of aid. If someone gives oil to a fire, it will easily grow forward, and it can never be stopped and after stopping it will cause a lot of damage, so my appeal to the developed world or the western countries is that they should Their secret Baku comes out of Matlab and gives peace to the people of the whole world and Russia must not stop them then must fight all over to defeat them and bring them under her control. New Hope and taking all possible measures to protect national interests, be it war or any other means, is desired or expected by the people of the world in peace talks.Protecting the national interest of a state is a fundamental responsibility and citizens want it and every citizen wants to protect their national interest if the neighboring state takes bad or other decisions. Try to convince them if they don't understand then make a presentation to the developed world or the UN if they don't even listen then go to war against them because defending one's territory is fundamental. Responsibility It is natural that Russia will take or is taking all the necessary measures to protect its own interests and no country will want to abandon its own interests and put other countries in danger.Or throw away your state is never possible
Finally let me say that Russia's economy is going down day by day due to only jab war even though they have huge oil reserves and various arms business they are still lagging behind and that's why They are trying their best to resolve the war as soon as possible.

^^^ In the US, they found a way around prosecuting and persecuting millions who speak good about Trump. Simply rig the elections, and who cares what anybody says, right? So the US ABSOLUTELY IS advanced beyond Russia.

You don't see forced labor in Russia, like what took place in the days of Stalin, and in Hitler's war-torn Germany. Russians have way more freedom to speak and act than you seem to think.

It is easy to say that most of Russians are in favor of their leader when they are forced to say so, in order not to be prosecuted by the government. We are not supposed to ignore those Russians who decided not to stay in their motherland any longer for being afraid of being recruited or those who are part of the opposition. It is the same in China, where there is no actual freedom of speech.

Sure, there are also people in Ukraine who are afraid of becoming defenders of their country, but Ukraine is still more democratic and free than Russia has been in at least a decade.

If this is about numbers of men, centainly Russia has an advantage, though.

It seems that in Russia the vast majority of the people are in favor of Putin. This means the war machine will be employing more people. Conflict resolution is in the works, but not from any particular nation or group working for resolution. Rather, it is the fact that Russia is outperforming just about every other nation militarily, but mostly Ukraine.


Ukraine Will 'Capitulate Unconditionally' Scott Ritter

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/no_author/ukraine-will-capitulate-unconditionally-scott-ritter/
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will conclude with Kiev's unconditional surrender, according to Scott Ritter, a former US intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that "Ukraine does not trade its territories, because we do not trade our people."

The message was dedicated to the Third Crimea Platform Summit, where Ukraine discussed ways of "de-occupying" the peninsula, which reunited with Russia in 2014 following a referendum triggered by the US-backed Maidan coup in Kiev earlier that year.

Replying to Zelensky's post, Ritter wrote that "it was NATO that suggested a trade. Russia isn't trading anything."
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He obviously means that war slows down the progress and advance of any nation which is directly involved in the Frontline. You know, those nations which suffer from the bombs dropping down sky or the destruction of infrastructure.

There are indeed companies that have interest in these kind of conflicts to perpetuate as much as possible, but it is not what he meant.

Also, it is kind of cynical to call out warmongers and then expecting an improving of one's country economy in detriment of the life of millions living in the opposite part of the planet.

Maybe war increase the growth and progress of any nation. Companies get together to make war materials. They hire the unemployed. Maybe this happen in the US, soon.

War slow down the growth and progress of any nation, there is no problem without cause, if there is the cause of the war, there could probably be a solution to this Ukraine and Russia war!.

Where are the world conflict Resolutional body agency?🤔🤔 The world are sharing gradually in this hardship due to the war, increase of hunger and starvation.

National interests of Russia


If you want to see WHY you should be checking into the national interests of Russia, watch this Tucker report, with Col. Douglas Macgregor - http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/349011-2023-08-23-ep-18-into-the-abyss-colonel-douglas-macgregor-tells-us.htm.

I don't believe both have suffered hough they might share some common issues  but what you see out there is media broadcast.  I'm not supporting  Russia though but what do you think it's happening there's something cooking but someone having upper hand with the other having upper hand in media as result of some cookings as have said earlier . With the ongoing war Russia created a new way of carrying out their trade since there's be some secretive war ongoing too .

To sum it all , the Russian situation is the type that you say a closed door means there are other access you can open. Before now, Russia and China didn't have that strong bond of trade even though they traded but not as it is now as China tops the list of foreign partner with Russia, Turkey and Belarus are also partners.  China supply the highest numbers of cars, telephone, computer, technological equipment while the major supply of Russia to China is crude oil

The lessons here is not to give up on yourself when doors are shut against you.

I get your point OP. But isn't also normal for the other superpower nations? I am referring to China and the US.

The so-called attack by Russia was simply a counter-attack against Ukraine. Now, I would agree that there have been mixed relations between Russia and Ukraine for ages.

If a country wants to increase its international trade structure, what does it do? It figures out how to trade with the US and Western Europe. This is what Russia was trying to do before the sanctions. Why waste time developing trade with countries who are not as beneficial to your trade as the US is? No need to develop deep trade relations with other countries when the US is there to trade with.

Part if not all of the reason why the US started war with Russia (even though it was a covert war) was that Russia was increasing its world trade faster than the US was. And by trading with the US, Russia was outstripping even the US in some ways. This was something that the US couldn't take, because it was exactly the thing that the US was trying to do to Russia. The sanctions were just about the only way (outside of the covert Ukraine war) to stop Russian trade... or so they thought.

Russia took advantage of the sanctions, and now there is a new gas pipeline between Russia and China... cementing relations between them somewhat. Also, Russia is opening up all kinds of new roads to trade with many countries around the world... oil and grain to India for example.

In addition, there are loads of countries who want to join BRICS.

Russian could have developed those economical and diplomatic connections without the senseless attack against a country and it's people, by the way.

In the end, Russia and any other country is supposed to be free to make deals and treaties with other countries or their choice, for the development of their own people's standard of living. So, the hardening on the economy cannot be an excuse or part of an excuse to support war between neighbors.

Also, even if Russia manages to find new clients for the gas and raw materials they export, being ilosated from much of the rest market can be harmful to any nation, not matter what plans they have in the mid term.

As you say, I think that there are two sides to the coin. But I probably don't mean it in the same way that you do.

People in the US government and military aren't that stupid... not all of them. The sanctions have helped Russia. Russia is developing worldwide contacts and trade it never would have if the sanctions hadn't been initiated. But the US idea of the sanctions was to weaken or destroy Russia. Total backfire... it seems. So, when you look at the bigger picture, it seems like the sanctions were really set in place to make Russia stronger.

The point? Who is really running the world show? Whoever it is, Russia and the US are two sides of the same coin.

I think there are two sides to the coin likewise the story of Russia and US on Ukraine. I don't think Russia was going for the reunion of the old Soviet Union and of course that won't be possible but the interest of both world powers are barely political at the expense of the Ukrainian soil. Ukraine has not known peace ever since they wanted to join NATO and US as the big man of NATO trying to advocate for freedom of association maybe be for other reasons though. About the losses, well people actually thought Russia would have given up because of the economic sanctions but that is not helping because I read somewhere that even US gets above 13% of her uranium from Russia.

the fact is both country have suffered and lost a lot in this on going war hundred of Russia soldiers and Ukraine civilian have been killed Russia itself has been plunged into isolation never before experience by an economy of such size. Despite an initial battle plan Russia has not been able to capture some of the major cities but Ukraine who are currently facing tougher challenge in recruiting as the war with Russia has entered a brutal phase I think the main goal become the libration of Donbas .

Yes, Russia made a big mistake when it decided to restore the USSR within its former borders. The time of empires has passed, and the Russian Empire is facing its inevitable end.

Reading through the comments, some people think Russia made a mistake getting involved in the Ukraine conflict and will regret it later. But we can't be sure about that. If the US and UK were in Russia's place, they might take stronger actions, or they might not. The situation is complicated and hard to predict.

And Hitler also wanted peace, Putin is not the first in this desire. He said that Russia has no borders.

You are more or less correct in that... no evidence for Hitler, either. But, to keep it in context, almost no evidence if you wrote it the way you write about Putin.

Maybe somebody has evidence for how bad Putin is. But there is evidence for the good, as well. One BIG chunk of evidence is that Putin has held off regarding nukes, even though the US is straining to goad him into using them. Putin wants peace and prosperity for the world rather than destruction for the peoples of the world.

Most of Russia's crimes are organized by the bandit Putin. The fact that this murderer is awaiting a tribunal and a gallows is beyond doubt. According to your approach, there is no evidence for Hitler either. However, there is no doubt that if Hitler were arrested, then he would hang next to other criminals. The same will happen with the Russian international terrorists led by Putin. There will be retribution for evil, this is how the world works.

Thanks. All these accusations against Putin, and almost 100% no proof. Not even evidence when you consider situations in Russia and Ukraine.

That's a lot of pages you have up on your websites. Are you that fast of a typist? Or how many people do you have working with you?


READY FOR ACTION: Russia equips new subs with hypersonic missiles

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-17-russia-equips-new-subs-with-hypersonic-missiles.html
Russia has upped the ante in the race for nuclear superiority by equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles. The head of Russia's largest shipbuilder on Monday, Aug. 14, told the RIA state news agency that the process is underway.

"Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a regular basis," Alexei Rakhmanov, chief executive officer of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told RIA. "Work in this direction is already underway."

Yasen-class submarines, also known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines. They are built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a program to modernize the Russian army and fleet.

Designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by Sevmash for the Russian Navy, Project 885M is built to fight adversary aircraft carriers, track submarines with nuclear weapons and strike at strategic ground facilities.

There are six Project 885M submarines at various stages of construction. It could not be ascertained how many have been completed or delivered to the Russian Navy.

The submarine can reach a maximum depth of 600 meters, an impressive figure considering that many torpedoes cannot reach such depths.

The Russian Navy commands one of the largest submarine fleets in the world, with an estimated 58 to 72 submarines in its fleet. These include 11 nuclear-powered attack subs, nine nuclear-powered cruise missile subs, 17 nuclear-powered attack subs, diesel-electric subs and special mission subs.

The United States, Russia’s arch-rival, operates between 64 and 68 submarines – all nuclear-powered.

Zircon missiles are a potent weapon – but not invincible

The sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles) and can travel nine times the speed of sound, making it difficult to defend against them. It is a scramjet-powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile with launch platforms on frigates and submarines.
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I think the whole talk about Russia national interest is about this. It is about defending themselves against US that may become there neighbors through NATO countries. US is playing the role of the big man and try to watch over the territories of NATO countries and nothing seems wrong with that for NATO. So Russia may be trying to resist that through Ukraine.

Well, not me. Of course Putin did it.

Now, you have proof of this invention and that Putin did it?

Consider all the info from both views at https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ukraine+government+attacks+donetsk+2014&ia=news

Yes, Putin invented the fairy tale that America staged a revolution in Ukraine, forcing Putin's henchman Yanukovych to flee Ukraine and therefore Russia was forced to attack Ukraine in order to protect itself from America. Who can believe this nonsense. Ukraine will defeat Russia and expel the invaders from their land.

Why in the world do you think that Russia isn't using nukes? They don't want to kill anybody. But they have to defend themselves when they are attacked by the US through Ukraine. Anybody would do that.

Yes, it's a pity that Ukrainians don't know anything about you. Maybe it's better for you to go to Ukraine and tell the Ukrainians there on the spot that you need to surrender to the Russian occupiers and part with the country with the name Ukraine.

Actually, demonstration of love for Ukrainians. If they would only listen to my warnings, and look at what is happening to them, they would surrender and survive instead of fighting to the last man and being simply gone.

Demonstration of vicious hatred for the Ukrainians, and the reason is that Ukrainians broke off the teeth of the Russians.

Ukrainians won't regret starting the war with Russia in 2014. Why not? Because there won't be any Ukrainians left to regret or not regret anything.

Watch the video.


Col. Douglas Macgregor: Is the Ukraine War Lost?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucxTCe2x6E
Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, the author of five books, a PhD, and a defense and foreign policy consultant. He was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1976 after 1 year at VMI and 4 years at West Point. In 2004, Macgregor retired with the rank of Colonel. In 2020, the President appointed Macgregor to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a post he held until President Trump left office. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia.

Macgregor is widely known inside the U.S., Europe, Israel, Russia, China and Korea for both his leadership in the Battle of 73 Easting, the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II, and for his ground breaking books on military transformation: Breaking the Phalanx (Praeger, 1997) and Transformation under Fire (Praeger, 2003). Macgregor's recommendations for change in Force Design and "integrated all arms-all effects" operations have profoundly influenced force development in Israel, Russia and China. In 2010, Macgregor traveled to Seoul, Korea to advise the ROK Ministry of Defense on force design. In 2019, Transformation under Fire was selected by Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, Chief of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), as the intellectual basis for IDF transformation. His fifth book, Margin of Victory: Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War from Naval Institute Press is available in Chinese, as well as, English and will soon appear in Hebrew.
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Russians will remember for a long time, regretting that they started a war with Ukraine.

It's possible that Ukraine's successes could put an end to Russia's national interests. But Ukraine will have been gone for such a long time by then, that nobody will even remember her.

Ukraine's successes could put an end to Russia's national interests.

Everybody will get their due for things they do. Zelensky is way worse than Putin when you consider the short time he has been in office.

The difference is that when you believe in Jesus, and attempt to act righteously, like Putin, the bad things you have done are forgiven by Jesus.

You can search Youtube and find at least several videos where Putin condemns anti-God, corrupt behavior. But you can't find Zelensky claiming anything like this. All you can find for Zelensky is lewd and crude comedian videos, or all the bad things he is doing in the war. And he doesn't seem to have changed to be in on God's side.

You are supporting the wrong side. This makes you an accomplice with Zelensky in all the wicked things he is doing. And if you don't change and believe in Jesus, and prove your faith by what you write/do, you will get the punishment you are talking about for Putin.

Don't be silly, Russia will come out of this conflict much stronger than it was before. The mass experience of using unmanned aerial vehicles alone is worth something. Armies around the world are now carefully studying the Ukrainian conflict, trying to learn valuable lessons from it, but the experience gained in practice is much more effective than any theory.

Ruzzia has choosen a path that is likely to lead it to a lower stance in the world and a reduced influence even at regional level. The war with Ukraine is sucking up armament at a pace that simply cannot be sustained, so regardless of the territorial and economic result of the war, Russia will have an army that is a shadow of what it was, including the reputation.

May all be rewarded according to their deeds. And it does not depend on whether Putin lights a candle or not. He'll get his due for killing thousands of people.

But you seem to forget that the best deed that anybody can do is to believe in Jesus-forgiveness for all their bad deeds. So, when they believe in Jesus, they don't have any deeds to be punished for any longer... like Putin... in his understanding of Western hypocrisy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-FeO5Sz__g.

  God judges everyone according to his deeds and all will be rewarded according to their deeds.

It is God Who prevails in everything. The US, particular the Zionists who control the banking system, are all failing. They will attempt to win in other ways, but they will ultimately fail in them, as well.

God loves all people. He loves bad people as well as good. He loves them because they are people, not because of what they do. His causing the US Zionists to fail is to show them that He loves them by showing them that MONEY and WORLD CONTROL is NOT what is important in their lives.

All this with the idea that they might turn to Him (God) for salvation.


Russia's Battle for the Black Sea Is Over. The Battle for the South China Sea Is About to Begin

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https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/25/russias-battle-for-the-black-sea-is-over-the-battle-for-the-south-china-sea-is-about-to-begin/
Before we follow America's Australia and other satrapies and turn our attention to the coming showdown in the South China Sea, we must first do an autopsy on MI6 agent Zelensky's anti-Semitic Ukrainian war. Russia's ability to impose a grain and arms' smuggling blockade on the occupied city of Odessa signifies not only that the Black Sea is now effectively a Russian lake but, more importantly, that Russia and her allies have prevailed from Crimea in the south to the Kola Peninsula in the north.

First off and most crucially, NATO, the Anglo-Saxons and their pathetic European satrapies, have forged Russia, China, Iran and some others into an unbreakable alliance that knows they must either hang together or hang separately. China has been Russia's stalwart economic ally and Iran is still licking its lips with all the captured Norwegian weaponry it has been gifted to reverse engineer.
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  I know many of my Russian acquaintances who came to Germany and Israel long before the war, they all support Putin and his war in Ukraine.

There could be more than we assume but they cannot openly talk about their personal opinions and ideals, because they would be procesuted if decided to speak up in defense of peace and in defense of Ukraine.

Also, I am talking about the Russians who decided to flee Russia recently, because they feared to be forcefully enrroled in the Russian army or because they are LGBT or any other reason the Kremlin would be willing to be against them. That people would never support Putin, I think.

Undoubtedly, there are people in Russia, and mostly of non-Russian nationality, who are against the war, but there are very few of them to change something. What is surprising is that the Russians who once fled from Russia support Putin.

I am not sure whether we should involve or treat all the Russian people the same way we do towards those who promote war and violence against Ukraine. There is a reason there are reeducation centers within Russia, to brainwash those who think the invasion Is not necessary and even unfair.

The Kremlin needs to push the illusion of an special operation even among their own people, also there were thousands who fled Russia once the aggression began. I get the Russian government is responsible for all of it, but among the Russian population there are peace keepers, who are silenced by an authoritarian government.

Russian fascists threaten all neighboring countries, as Hitler once did. As the world once rallied to stop Hitler, today the world must punish the Russians and save the Ukrainian people from annihilation.

Alik Bakhshi

National interests of Russia

     In the speeches of President Putin on the international theme, one can often hear a phrase that, it seems to me, has become sacred - "Russia's national interests". Usually it sounds with reproach to the countries of the West, which, in Putin's opinion, should not only take into account Russia's national interests, but also respect them. True, Putin did not bother to disclose what the national interests of Russia really consist in, but judging by the military-political steps taken by Russia, they clearly go beyond its state borders, which is confirmed by the Russian invasion of Georgia and Ukraine, followed by the withdrawal of their territories. Thus, Russia's national interests inevitably face the national interests of other countries, and are defined only as aggression. Ukraine wanted to enter the European Union, but it turns out that such an desire is an independent country, violates the legitimate interests of another country - Russia. By the way, Putin said that Russia will not allow such actions by the neighboring country. It turns out that if an independent neighboring country, for example Finland, wants to join NATO, then Russia will have to wait for a military invasion, because maybe Finland too is falling under the legitimate interests of Russia.
     I did not make a reservation, Moscow really believes that Russia's national interests are both its legitimate interests. This is confirmed by the words of Foreign Minister Lavrov: "The project of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline affects the legitimate interests of Russia." http://Http://tass.ru/politika/1582470
    It turns out that if a gas pipeline is laid between the independent countries of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan by the Caspian Sea, this action is a violation of Russian laws. It is possible that the construction of gas pipelines in general is a violation of international laws. In this case, laying a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey on the bottom of the Black Sea is also not legal. Or, maybe, Russia asked permission from Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria? Like Russia's request to the Black Sea countries with such a request was not observed. Hence the natural conclusion: all countries that were colonies of the Russian Empire, or as Moscow calls the post-Soviet space, fall under the legitimate interests of Russia. In other words, any independent decision of these countries, whether political or economic, may be in the field of Russian legislation. Exceptions are Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which have issued themselves as members not only of the EU, but also of NATO. This fact points to the fact that Russia's legitimate interests began to operate with the appearance of Putin in the Kremlin; Under President Yeltsin, the demand for observance of Russia's legitimate interests in the post-Soviet space did not come from Moscow. Here Ukraine did not have time to hurry and was violated the Russian laws, overthrowing its president, Yanukovych. Thus, the removal of the president from power in any independent country, but the former colony of Russia, is a violation of Russia's legitimate interests. I suspect that they did not know about any legitimate interests of Russia in Ukraine when they started the Maidan, for which they received punishment in the form of the loss of part of their country. In short, ignorance of laws does not absolve from responsibility.
   In fact, Putin should present a specific list of Russia's legitimate national interests, so that neighboring independent countries do not violate Russian law and pay for this territory.
   Undoubtedly, each state has its own national interests, however, if the state was once part of the Russian Empire, then its national interests are inferior to Russia's national interests, which are legitimate. Dot!

  The result - if your neighbor is Russia, then you can be either a vassal or an enemy.

   08/18/17.