Zeihan believes that after Russia dispenses with Ukraine it will come for NATO. This is fantasy. If you read a 2017 Rand study (available online) it’s clear that it’s the other way around. US/NATO have been pushing ever eastward since the fall of the Berlin wall after promising Gorbachev they would not expand “one inch” beyond Germany’s border. Yes Russia is in an existential fight for its survival. They will never accept NATO in Ukraine.
As regards Putin’s desire to reconstitute the Soviet empire here is a quote: “ People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.”
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