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Kind of reaching there. Care to elaborate on where Putin said he's putting the band back together or did you see that on Fox News?They care because Putin and his backers have made it clear that their intention is to reestablish the Soviet Empire to its greatest reaches. They claim the Baltics as part of Russia proper, and Poland and the other Warsaw Pact nations as integral parts of their rule.
If we are to take them to their word that Ukraine must always be part of Russia, then we must also take them to their word that they intend to rule the puppet nations they lost in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As an aside , one of our friends just got back from St Petersburg where she's been stranded for about a month after going there to sell her apartment in the city. Couldn't get out because just about every other country has suspended incoming flights out of Russia not because "they don't let people leave" . That's ridiculous. In any case she remarked " Don't believe the news. , pretty much nothings changed" No extra war footing, no bread lines, no press gangs etc. Russia has developed a remarkably insular self sufficient economy in the last few years .
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