VLADIMIR Putin believed NATO would disintegrate and Western countries beg Russia not to harm them after he invaded Ukraine, leaked spy docs show. As the Russian death toll in the Ukraine war passes…
Chillingly Russia’s “nuclear triad would be activated”, says the source, referring to land, air and submarine launched nuclear weapons.All of which would lead to a “fundamental collapse of the West within the time allotted after the ultimatum was issued”.
Putin, who served in the Soviet-era KGB, has previously called the collapse of the, which was ruled from Moscow, as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century,"In the future, this will allow Russia to take political control of a number of countries that were part of the USSR. NATO as an integral structure will cease to exist."
"One of the reasons why Putin's invasion of Ukraine took so many in the West by surprise was because it made no sense - unless you were within Putin’s mind. Giles, the author of Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, said that treaties with NATO proposed by Putin before the war laid out all the aspirations described by the FSB insiders.
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