Putin is engaged in 'an existential struggle' with the West

[Blue_Tires]

Last edited Mon Mar 16, 2015, 06:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Vladimir Putin sees Russia and the West as being locked in "an existential struggle," reports USNI News, citing an expert at a Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday.

Eugene Rumer, the director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Russia and Eurasia Program, told the audience at the event that the rising tensions between Russia and the NATO-orientated West was a cause for concern. Particularly at stake in any ramping up of hostilities are the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Both Latvia and Estonia have large ethnic Russian populations which Rumer believes Putin "is not adverse to using ... to make domestic trouble."

If Putin starts using ethnic Russians to stir up trouble in those countries as he has done in Ukraine, then war just may be NATO's only possible response, predicted Rumer. As Moscow becomes more assertive, this likelihood increases.


http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-engaged-in-existential-struggle-with-west-2015-3

[Purveyor]

1. "citing an expert at a Heritage Foundation " Who is 'digging deep' now?

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Bussiness insider printing a story based a a Heritage Foundation Report...

should be taken with a grain of salt.

I think Putin is building a new Imperial Russia, that he is a war monger, and a tyrant.

But I do not trust anything pushed by the Heritage Foundation.