Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to pretend that he can talk about Ukraine without Ukraine, and in the future he will believe that he can talk about the Baltics without the Baltics. Kovalenko wrote about this on Telegram, UNN reports.
Putin continues to pretend that he can talk about Ukraine without Ukraine. Similarly, one day he will believe that he can talk about the Baltics without the Baltics – this is a way of thinking. But Russia has long been a country of limited subjectivity, completely dependent on selling energy resources to the Global South, on weapons and ammunition from the DPRK, foreign technologies, and schemes to circumvent sanctions. Such countries are certainly not on par with either the US or China, and they certainly do not decide anything in the post-Soviet space, in Europe, in the Caucasus, or in the Middle East.
He noted that Putin's desire to create a world in which Europe resolves regional issues not only with the US but also with Russia is pathetic in its logic.
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