OPINION: As towering skyscrapers rose in Moscow atop a pile of oil cash, Putin’s government became more backward-looking and more isolated, lalpert1 writes.
It’s as ever-present in the air around Russia’s capital as it is central to the country’s economy, infrastructure and geopolitical posture.
See: Putin calls for international recognition of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimean Peninsula in UkraineTo understand the Kremlin’s motivations in regard to its smaller, and relatively impoverished, neighbor, the key fact to know is that Russia supplies 40% of Europe’s heating-fuel supplies — namely, natural gas.To get it there, Russia relies mostly on two aging pipeline networks, one of which runs through Belarus and the other through Ukraine.
“In Ukraine, meanwhile, many were growing increasingly ill at ease with the impoverished state of their country.” This is where Putin’s nationalistic impulses kick in. He views the fall of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical tragedy” of the past century and the rush of former Eastern bloc countries into the embrace of the European Union, and even NATO, as a great humiliation.
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