Since launching a surprise attack last week, Moscow has been unable to push Ukrainian troops back after they advanced up to 30km into Russian territory and are now in control of about 28 settlements.
I wouldn’t say the invasion of Russia is an expansion of Lebensraum. It’s just a desperate attempt to weaken Russia, not the attempt to permanently expand Ukraines borders.
Except that the Ukrainian nationalist project explicitly and openly says that it wants to do just that in the long term. In their delusional fantasies Russia’s defeat by this NATO proxy army is just the first step on the road to “greater Ukraine”.
Wouldn’t the exapansionist policies here be from the US and its European proxies against both Ukraine and Russia? Land and resources at the cost of slavic lives? A check against political economies not beholden to western dictats?
I wouldn’t say the invasion of Russia is an expansion of Lebensraum. It’s just a desperate attempt to weaken Russia, not the attempt to permanently expand Ukraines borders.
Except that the Ukrainian nationalist project explicitly and openly says that it wants to do just that in the long term. In their delusional fantasies Russia’s defeat by this NATO proxy army is just the first step on the road to “greater Ukraine”.
Wouldn’t the exapansionist policies here be from the US and its European proxies against both Ukraine and Russia? Land and resources at the cost of slavic lives? A check against political economies not beholden to western dictats?