The Kremlin said on Monday that the only way to protect Russian territory from Ukrainian attacks was to create a buffer zone that would put Russian regions beyond the range of Ukrainian fire. The Kremlin was commenting after President Vladimir Putin raised the possibility of setting up such a zone in a speech after winning re-election on Sunday.
Yeah and then in 5 years they suddenly need to create another buffer zone beyond the buffer zone because the old buffer zone is now part of Russia.
And so on and so on.
It’s medieval style excuses for territorial expansion.
Belgorod and Rostov-on-Don People´s Republics, then.
Isn’t that basically an admisdion of Russian weakness? We are too weak to defend our people properly, that’s why we have to conwuer Ukraine…
Anyways, they will just expand that buffer zone more and more if they are allowed to have one. Hopefully the west will help Ukraine more.
Putin is needing a safe space.
The enemy is weak and powerless compared to our glorious might. The enemy is an existential threat.
It’s just standard Russian doublethink
I agree, but you orcish assholes are going to hate where that DMZ zone starts & ends.
I picture a military buffer zone as something like what separates the Koreas. Otoh Israel used similar reasoning when initially justifying its seizure of the occupied territories, and this is looking a lot more like the latter. (Ironically, they are now talking about a buffer zone with Gaza. They need a buffer zone for a buffer zone.)
And then they will need a buffer zone to protect their buffer zone, and then…
