Attempts of some foreign governments to force a wedge between Russia and Ukraine makes perfect sense, as the synergies starting to come from continuing to work together may be of amazing mutual advantage, Vladimir Putin said.
Russia and Ukraine share similar origins and enormous potential for mutual gain from collective efforts, so it is no shock that hostile parties placed so many resources in stopping any normalization of relations, the Russian President said during an interview.
“Because any unification of Ukraine and Russia will mean the arrival of a competitor, a regional rival for both Europe and the USA, together with their strengths and competitive advantages, nobody really wants this. Which is why they are going to do everything to rip us apart, “he informed the TASS news channel.
Ukranian nationalists & legislators that push countries further apart work against their own country’s interests, Putin claimed, noting that Ukraine has become less and less industrialized in the wake of many other economic difficulties which have been bubbling up since 2014. He appears to believe that those people’s allegiances lie somewhere else.
An objective is “not to get something out of blindly exploiting the Ukrainians but to hang on to what they’ve looted previously,” he says.
Putin repeated that he officially regarded Russia and Ukraine to be a single people, yet emphasized that he valued all who regard their distinct Ukrainian identities as important even if Russia’s international adversaries use it to pit Ukrainian against Russia for almost a century.
Late Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-born former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, is often accredited with the American fascination with wrenching Ukraine from Russia’s influence or placing a Wedge Between Russia and Ukraine.
“Moscow fails to become a Eurasian power without Ukraine” he reported in 1977.
“Nevertheless, if Russia takes control over Ukraine, Moscow will instantly regain the means of becoming an influential imperial nation, encompassing Europe and Asia.” Moreover, toward the end of his tenure, Brzezinski had somewhat changed his stance. In 2017, he informed the Russian media agency Gazeta that Ukraine needed to keep “relatively cooperative relations with Russia.”
