By and large yes, because I don't see his ambition plausibly extended to those states already lost to the EU and NATO. Instead, it's the "birth children" he refuses to give up -- or old parts of the Russian empire.
If Putin was truly expansionist, Ukraine would have been swallowed whole long ago.
But great question that I had to ask myself looking back.
Do you still feel that Putin in not expansionist?
By and large yes, because I don't see his ambition plausibly extended to those states already lost to the EU and NATO. Instead, it's the "birth children" he refuses to give up -- or old parts of the Russian empire.
If Putin was truly expansionist, Ukraine would have been swallowed whole long ago.
But great question that I had to ask myself looking back.