'The Kremlin’s bullying and aggression may lead to quick victories in the short term, but it can never bring true stability or peace to international relations,' Michael Lucchese writes.
confirming Russia’s next target is the small Eastern European country Moldova. The Kremlin would like to foster political destabilization and claim the region of Transnistria much like they fostered chaos in Ukraine and then occupied Crimea and the Donbas.’s vision of the world order is built on fraud, force, and tyranny. Countries around the world want to join the American-led alliance system because they believe it will lead to increased freedom and prosperity.
At the core of the Moldova plan is an attempt to force the country into the Eurasian Economic Union, a sort of Russian alternative to the. Moldova achieved EU candidate status in 2022, which Putin seems to consider a red line. In no small part, his aggression toward Ukraine was motivated by that country’s decision to pursue closer relations with and eventually membership in the EU.
Putin simply does not believe Eastern European countries should be sovereign or free to choose their own destiny. He believes, instead, that the countries which made up the old Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union are his to claim. Putin has eventhat Ukraine is a real country independent of Russia. Economic, political, and even cultural decisions in these countries should always be subject to Moscow’s will, Putin seems to believe, and any deviation from it is, to him, cause for war.
Putin’s neo-imperialism is understandably concerning to free countries that border Russia. They are taking concrete action to brace themselves for further aggression. Historically neutral Sweden and Finland
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