78 Russia’s goals
Help us write: Learn why Russia wages war: Russia wants to expand and Putin needs the war to stay in power.
- Russia has only defensive interests in Ukraine
- The West wants to conquer russia
Russia wants to conquer land, natural resources and people and destroy everything Ukrainian.
78.1 Maintaining power
Every time Putin has started a war, his approval ratings have risen. For Putin, war is an important instrument for maintaining power.
78.2 Conquering land
This conquest is about land, because of the value of the land and because of the area for renewable energies when the fossil fuel business comes to an end.
78.3 Natural resources
UKraine is rich in natural resources
78.4 Capturing People
Russia needs people to exploit and as canon fudder for its wars:
78.5 Stategic value
All of the above serve Russia’s desire to expand its empire.
78.6 Genocidal goals
Russia fights a ewar of annihilation, it has announced genocide Kapitel 40 and uses every opportunity to conduct genocide Kapitel 41.
78.7 Fascist goals
Russia has turned in a fascist society and pursues fascist goals, see the chapter on russian fascism (Kapitel 53).