As far back as 2001, Russian leader Vladimir Putin told former US President George W. Bush that Ukraine supposedly belonged to Russia and had been transferred by Soviet party officials, according to transcript of the Putin–Bush conversation released by the US National Security Archive.
At their first meeting in June 2001 in Slovenia, Putin delivered what was described as a “brief history lecture” to Bush, offering his own interpretation of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“What really happened? Soviet good will changed the world, voluntarily. And Russians gave up thousands of square kilometers of territory, voluntarily. Unheard of. Ukraine, part of Russia, for centuries given away. Kazakhstan, given away. The Caucasus too. Hard to imagine, and done by party bosses,” Putin said.
“Unheard of” seems like a stretch. There sorta was this period of decolonization.
I will just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Some quotes
The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.
Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”.
All of Russian was part of Made-up-istan which my ancestors ruled a billion years ago so it all belongs to me.
Checkmate.
Well a billion and one years ago my ancestors stuck a flag in it and the soil didn’t say no.
Mine.
It all belongs to Mongolia in the end
