For a whole period, which was brought to an end by the invasion of Ukraine, the threats addressed by the "master of the Kremlin" to the southern neighbor and to those who would have liked to support him gave rise to an essentially psychological analysis revolving around of the need for international consideration which Putin, and therefore Russia, had been deprived of.
The participation in NATO of neighboring countries that had previously been satellites was like an insult to him, a sign of a downgrading.
That now Ukraine, a country that shares religion and a lot of history with Russia, should in turn escape from what remains of the empire, that was intolerable to him.
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