To my way of thinking, President Putin is using Ukraine as a lesson what went wrong with the USSR concept of a Russian Empire in the world and how to bring back Russian Empire.
Mr. William Pomeranz, Director of the Kennan Institute (a part of the Wilson Center) came up with the idea. I plan to present it as a major theme of today's discussion that occurred 11-12 noon on my write-up of the session soon.
But briefly, Putin is after eradicating memory in the Ukrainians of their culture, replacing it with pure Russian culture.
And if he can do that, he'll use it as a paradigm for much attacking the Baltics, including Poland, even parts of Germany, if I sense what Mr. Pomeranz's thesis is: viz., Russian taking and replacing the disparate cultures of Central Asia with Russian, e.g., language, cultural achievements, etc.
He's already trying it out in areas of Ukraine under Russian takeover, now. An enterprise that, I would imagine, will take over a hundred years to wipe out from memory entirely in these several countries, formerly Russian satellites..
The matter is so important, I'm raising it in this memo, first.
My opinion (which I was able to find in Mr. Pomeranz's comments made today that I next tied to what I found when talking with people from the Satellite countries of Russia on a trip to Moscow.)
P.S. President Putin is already wanted for crimes against humanity. I wish those charges would be invoked before he goes much further against Ukraine.
I was involved in the humanity charges some years back in the 1990s against the Yugoslav President Milosevic before the UN International Criminal Court. It can be done.
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