Why experts were so alarmed by Putin's radical, disturbing Ukraine speech
ordered troops into Ukraine’s separatist-held Donbas region on Monday, prompting the international community and Russia experts to frantically speculate on what Moscow’s next step could be., the national conversation has paid less attention to what heannouncing the troop movement, Putin also posited a radical and revisionist account of regional history by claiming that Ukraine was “created by Russia” and incapable of self-governance.
to MSNBC, “When you deny that another nation exists, you’re making a claim that it’s OK to destroy that other nation.”in Foreign Policy I asked Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center, how he interpreted Putin’s speech, and he noted that “the intensity and anger in Putin’s speech was disconcerting to most analysts of Kremlin politics.”
“The Soviet Union took the form it did — that is, as a union of republics with national names, precisely because the founders of the Soviet Union knew there was a Ukrainian question, and knew they had to address it in some way,” he continued. “The Ukrainian national movement went back a hundred years before the beginning of the Soviet Union, the elements of Ukrainian history go back to the Middle Ages. He’s got it completely wrong historically.
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