Hagel: It's No Secret, Vladimir Putin Wants to Reunify the USSR
Leah Barkoukis | May
26, 2014
According
to U.S. intelligence, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions are crystal
clear: he wants to restore the Soviet Union. That, at least, is what Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel had to say when asked about Putin’s “calculus.”
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"Mr.
Putin has made no secret and he said it publicly on more than one occasion over
the years that the demise of the Soviet Union was a terrific mistake, it
shouldn't have happened, it was bad for the Russian people," Hagel said in
an interview with PBS. "Now, I think that's a
premise that he truly believes and I think that's where he starts."
Hagel
denied suggestions that we are at the beginning of a new Cold War based on the
interconnected economies of Russia, the U.S., and China.
"When
you look at his actions in 2008 in Georgia and the actions he's taken here
specifically, as you know, inCrimea, he's not across
the easternUkrainianborder but,
nonetheless, he's in Crimea," Hagel told PBS’ Charlie Rose. "I mean you do have
to reflect on that reality and we have to be very clear-eyed about your
question, well, what is his end game here, where is he going with this? He has
made all those -- those former Soviet Socialist Republics, the "-stans" -- quite
nervous. Kazakhstan all the way across, obviously Moldova, some of the nations
that are still connected on that western European edge, everybody is very
nervous on what is in his mind."
“President
Putin has a dream to restore the Soviet Union,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk said last month. “And every day, he goes further and further. And God
knows where is the final destination.”
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