Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Putin still wants total control over Ukraine" video.

I don't think Putin believes a word he said. I think Putin thinks that that is the constructed reality he can get away with pretending. He knows Russia was never "under attack by the west", but rather that the Russian oligarchy was "under attack" by the free market. Russia has utterly failed to become anything more than a gas station with an army because the systemic corruption, that keeps Putin in power, is incompatible with actual competition and innovation. If Russia had gotten rid of the corruption foreign capital would have developed Russia into a very rich country. But nobody wants to operate in a sphere where the law will be changed if you don't constantly cough up lube money, or you have bogus charges pressed against you by the police if you don't pay protection money, etc, etc, etc.
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