Putin's 22-yrs War Against Ukraine and the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wO_Jl-TyroMar 10, 2025
Talk at the Atlantic Council, April 7, 2015
Fresh as if it was yesterday
00:00 – The worst geopolitical crisis since 1962 Caribbean Crisis
01:11 – It is not “War in Ukraine", this is "Russian aggression against Ukraine"
02:58 – Putin's preparations to this war began at least in 2003
03:51 – This War is against the West, too
05:53 – Worse than "old" Cold War
09:37 – Ukraine's Drive to the West, 1991-2015
12:36 – Mar 25, 1999: Vyacheslav Chornovil's assassination
13:07 – Jul 28, 2001: Consecration of the St.Vladimir Cathedral in Chersoneses, Crimea
14:36 – Sep 18 – Oct 24, 2003: Tuzla Crisis, Kerch Strait
15:06 – Mar-Apr 2004: Start of the Linguistic aggression against Ukraine
19:14 – Sep 5, 2004: Victor Yushchenko's poisoning
19:28 – Dec 2, 2004: Kuchma to Putin: "Ukraine has become a different country"
20:09 – Summer 2005 (9 years before 2014): Donetsk People's Republic flag in the pro-Putin's youth camp, Seliger, Russia
20:51 – Jan 2006: Gold share in CBR ForEx reserves
21:45 – 2006-2008: Phantom imperial pains and imperial dreams
23:08 – June 12, 2007: Putin's visit to Solzhenitsyn
23:39 – April 4, 2008, Bucharest, Putin to Bush: "Half of Ukraine is mine!"
24:07 – April 21, 2008: "Clockwork Orange" operation leaked
24:33 – June 2013: No more obstacles to Ukraine association with the EU
25:49 – July 27, 2013, Kyiv: Putin began Hybrid War against Ukraine
26:18 – Putin's imperial mindset
30:19 – Pragmatic vs ideological explanations
34:17 – Putin's "call for justice" in international relations
35:52 – Berchtesgaden-1939 and Sochi-2014
40:01 – Hitler proposed to Chamberlain: "Let's make a deal!"
41:44 – Putin proposed to the US: "Let's make a deal!"
43:51 – July 27, 2013: Sanitary War
44:21 – Nov 9, 2013: Putin blackmailed Yanukovich
44:41 – Jan 2024: Putin Security Council's 11-regions Novorossia Plan
44:52 – Feb 20, 2014: Putin started Conventional War against Ukraine
45:13 – March 2014: Putin blackmailed Ukraine with full-scale military intervention
45:23 – March 16, 2014: Crimean faked Occupendum vs real polls
45:49 – March 18, 2014: Putin's "Crimea Speech"
45:58 – March 23, 2014: Putin-Zhirinovsky's Plan to Divide Ukraine
46:24 – April 17, 2014: Putin's announced his Novorossia Dream Plan
46:32 – April 2014: Novorossia in the Making
46:39 – June 16 – Sep 9, 2014: Donbass War' frontlines
46:54 – July 17, 2014: MH17 downing, Putin launched Great Terror War
47:04 – 2000-2015: Preparations for Big War
48:19 – NATO response to the Kremlin Aggression
48:44 – Kremlin's message to NATO: "Don't send weapons to Ukraine!"
49:06 – Putin's Nuclear Blackmail
50:51 – Sep 28, 2015: Putin-Obama Deal on Syria
51:44 – Logic of Putin's geopolitical strategy
53:26 – What is "serious counter pressure"?
55:46 – Putin does deliver
1:01:26 – Putin is ready for Grand Bargain with the US
1:02:29 – Kazakhstan is relatively safe as long as Nazarbayev is in charge
1:03:16 – Amount resources vs effectiveness of its use and existence of political will
1:07:58 – Pragmatic reasons alone cannot explain Putin's moves
1:13:37 – Difference between Boris Nemtsov's and Yerzy Popieluszko's assassinations
1:17:04 – Psycho warfare against Russia's citizens and other nations
1:19:21 – The solution to this war is free Russia