What is Putin up to?

 Joel Gehrke:

US accuses Russia of trying to regain 'former empire' as UN clash looms

Putin appears to be using Ukraine as his excuse to stop NATO expansion into Eastern Europe.  Ukraine is no serious threat to Russia nor are the Eastern European countries who want to be a part of NATO.  NATO is a defense pact and not an empire.  Putin's response to the expansion of the defense pact is to threaten aggression which makes those people see the need for NATO even more.

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..."The questions on the table on Monday really go to the heart of the UN Charter — whether one country can militarily threaten or invade its neighbor ... even whether a former empire can use force to wrench its former territory from a sovereign nation.”

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Putin's mistake is seeing NATO as a competing empire.  It is a mistake that threatens war. 

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