The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been going on for almost a month, but the international community may still not have figured out what the cause of the conflict is.
Provoked by the United States? NATO's Eastward Expansion? It may be, it may not be all.
It stands to reason that Ukraine is the "cradle of Russian civilization." Putin loves Ukraine very much. Is Putin so fond of Ukraine that he simply sent troops to conquer it? Why did Putin do this? What is Putin trying to achieve? Three weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, this is still speculation.
On March 18, columnist Alain Vlachon of the French newspaper Le Monde wrote an article about it. Vlashon said that the key core to understanding the war launched by Putin is to understand putin as a figure.
First, there are attempts to understand Putin's so-called "dictatorship" of his war in Ukraine. Of course, this is clearly the tone of the Western media.
However, there are also Russian media that hold this view.
Describing Putin in an article, Russia's official news agency, Novosti, said that Putin was an authoritarian man who was convinced that he was intellectually superior, that Putin was trapped in a bubble of lies, and that all he heard was his fantasy. He saw himself as the modern Tsar, and his mission was to "restore the historical integrity of Russia." The article was supposed to celebrate the conquest of Ukraine by Russian troops at the end of February, but it was published a little too quickly and has now been retracted. Good Russian diplomats and spies must have warned the Kremlin that Ukraine is not what President Vladimir Putin imagined: Ukrainians would rebel. But Putin, trapped in an "alternative reality," neither heed nor read the warnings of Russian diplomats and spies, waging "his war."
Some argue that one reason Putin started the conflict was that he was fed up with "insults."
The writer Vlashon went on to point out that some believe that one of the reasons Putin started the conflict was that he was fed up with "insults." The question is, who dares to insult Putin the Great?
Historian Elena Karel Denkos, the lifelong secretary of the Académie de France, said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Westerners "abandoned" Russia and kept "humiliating" Russia. Putin is a product of this environment: Putin's emotions are hurt.
In this regard, Vlachon said, let's take a closer look. Under pressure from the United States, Russia joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 1992, he said: in the years that followed, Russia received tens of billions of dollars in consecutive loans. Russia then joined the Council of Europe in 1996 and then the Group of Seven in 1997, turning the Group of Seven into the Group of Eight.
Once the G8
During the 1998 ruble crisis, Moscow received support from Washington and emergency financial assistance from Brussels. Not to mention the Russia-NATO partnership that has been established since 1991. Has Putin been offended? Perhaps there was contempt and arrogance, especially during the Balkan wars, but there was no humiliation.
Others have tried to use NATO's eastward expansion to explain why Putin is waging war. Some say Putin is a wise and visionary strategist who attacked Ukraine because it could one day join NATO and then reconquest Crimea and donbass in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has actually controlled since 2014. However, in this regard, Vlason said that although NATO recognized Kiev's mission to join it in 2008, NATO has refused to start the process of Ukraine's joining NATO.
In Ukraine, a country with no possibility of joining NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin is not in a defensive position. As Russia's official news agency, Novosti, said, Putin is working to revive Greater Russia.
On the New Yorker website, on March 3, Stephen Kotkin, a prominent U.S. expert on Russia, placed Putin in an uninterrupted Russian continuity. Kotkin said putin's conflict with Ukraine was not the product of NATO expansion or the so-called humiliation of russia by the West. The war was part of "Russian history permanence". Although Russia is the largest country on earth, and probably one of the richest, it has an insatiable and mysterious "will to expand."
This is the view of American experts, and perhaps it represents the view of a part of the American public, and even Biden may think so.
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