It was the West's Original Sin of 1991, especially the US's and Germany's.

The experience of Milosevic's genocidal Serbia showed already in the early 1990s where Russia could go if the West persisted in conflating the end of communist ownership with liberal democracy.
RT @POLITICOEurope: OPINION: The West made a grave mistake when it assumed the collapse of Soviet communism meant the end of Russian imperialism.
https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-russia-benefits-disintegration/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

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