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Call him Vladimir the Great! Putin compares himself to Cari who geographically expanded Russia

2022-06-11 09:27:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Call him Vladimir the Great! Putin compares himself to Cari who geographically
Vladimir Putin compared himself to Peter the Great

Vladimir Putin's admiration for Peter the Great is well known, but the Kremlin chief thinks he himself is "magnificent".

Putin has compared himself to the Russian tsar of the 18th century, comparing the invasion of Ukraine today to Peter's expansionist wars about three centuries ago and admitting that war is not about denazization, but about annexing Ukraine's territories.

Putin's apparent ambitions for rebuilding the empire are not good news for Ukraine and have irritated other neighbours, including Estonia, which called Putin's comments "completely unacceptable."

The Russian president was meeting young scientists and entrepreneurs when he made the comments. Before talking about developing technology, he spoke of politics and power: the new battle he sees for geopolitical dominance. Here, he told his chosen audience that Peter the Great was a model to follow.

"You might think he was fighting with Sweden to kidnap their lands" Putin said, referring to the Northern Wars that Peter the Great to forge a new Russian Empire.

"But he didn't rob anything. He regained territories!" he said, arguing that slavs had lived in the area for centuries.

"Now it has fallen to us to recover and strengthen Russia," Putin concluded, with a near-ready smile that left no doubt that he was referring to Ukraine and his goals there.

Peter's rule, he suggested, was proof that Russia's expansion had strengthened it.

Recently, Putin has taken it on to often mention Russia's past, always carefully cushioned to match his cause of today. A few months before attacking Ukraine, he published a giant essay in which he essentially argued the country's historical right to exist.

When Russia invaded its neighbour on February 24th, Putin falsely claimed it was a limited "special operation" in the eastern donbass region to "denazify" Ukraine and reduce the supposed threat to Russia.

But even as he was saying those words, his troops were moving to Kiev and bombing the land even further west. More than 100 days later, a fifth of Ukrainian territory is under Russian military control, with puppet administrations talking about referendums on joining Russia.

And now Putin feels brave enough to admit that his "operation" is actually an occupation. He also believes the West will eventually accept the reality that his troops are struggling to capture terrain.

"At that time, "no European country" recognized Russia's claim to the land where Peter the Great created St. Petersburg as Russia's brave new capital," Putin said. Now everyone knows him.

His comments have also shocked Baltic countries. Estonia's Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to condemn his reference to Peter the Great's attack on Narva, now in Estonia.


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