Putin Told Bush Ukraine Was “Part of Russia” Decades Before Full-Scale Invasion, 2001 Transcript Shows
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Putin claimed Ukraine was historically part of Russia during a meeting with Bush in 2001, discussing NATO and territorial exchanges from the Soviet era.

As far back as 2001, Russian leader Vladimir Putin told former US President George W. Bush that Ukraine supposedly belonged to Russia and had been transferred by Soviet party officials, according to transcript of the Putin–Bush conversation released by the US National Security Archive.

At their first meeting in June 2001 in Slovenia, Putin delivered what was described as a “brief history lecture” to Bush, offering his own interpretation of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I will just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

    Some quotes

    The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.

    Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”.