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Originally Posted by CampbellsTransgressions
Their goal is to breakup the EU and NATO as well as to strengthen American appetite for isolationism.
Russia has never stopped being expansionist and is only limited by the existing power structures which currently prevent it from invading Poland and friends.
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The whole thing is Putin doesn't want Russia to move away from being a back water and corrupt he'll hole that he controls. To make sure that he can maintain power, he needs to break up alliances that have the potential to bring him down.
Installing other nutjob ultra nationalist regimes into competitor countries brings everyone down to Russia's level and causes enough distraction in those countries populace that Russia stops becoming a focus. Democratic, anti corruption uprisings in Ukraine that toppled Yanukovich scared Putin so badly that he did not want the same thing happening in Russia and triggering an investigation on his vast illicit wealth.