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It is quite possible that the whatsapp phone number list result of the attempt to move NATO away from the Russian borders will be Finland's entry into NATO. Is Putin right when he says that the West wants to push Russia out of whatsapp phone number list Ukraine and make it even weaker? Or is it just paranoia? It is a crucial question. If by a weak Russia you mean a country that cannot play the same role as the Soviet Union in a US-led world order, Putin is right. If you mean that Russia will not be allowed to be part of the world order on its whatsapp phone number list own terms as a sovereign power, I think he sees it that way too.
Putin's problem is whatsapp phone number list that he does not understand politics as anything more than a competition between world powers. For him, political opposition to his power is also a way for the West to make Russia look weak in whatsapp phone number list international relations. For him, defending human rights means the same thing: a weak Russia. That is why he prohibits movements in defense of human rights. The fact that a candidate whatsapp phone number list who did not have Putin's support won the presidential elections