Why Putin wants a ‘forever war’
When Westerners talk about the conflict in Ukraine becoming a “forever war”, they tend to mean it as a bad thing. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, though, it likely is a goal.
Last week, Putin made the date September 30 an official holiday: the inelegantly-named Day of Reunification of New Regions with the Russian Federation. Marking the one-year anniversary of the annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions — even though most were not even in Russian control at the time — it provided an opportunity for Putin to return to one of his current obsessions: that this is a struggle “for the Motherland, for our sovereignty, spiritual values, unity and victory”.… Seguir leyendo »