Russia's need for power in foreign territory
More than a year has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which brought a state of war and waves of refugees to the area of the hitherto peaceful European continent. The reasons why this conflict between two countries, which is resolved by arms, cannot be resolved diplomatically, can be several or only one, and that is power over others. Ukraine is believed to have been independent from the Soviet Union since 1991 with its 77.8% ethnic Ukrainians and only 17.3% Russians, if we check Wikipedia data from 2018. The Soviet Union is supposed to be a union of socialist republics that existed from 1922 to 1992. According to the same source and after its dissolution in 1992, the successors of this union with a one-party socialist system were the following countries: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia , Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, it ...