Russia without Ukraine, former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote, “ceases to be an empire, but Russia with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.” And, because the vast majority of Ukrainians have no desire to join Putin’s empire, we can be certain that the state Putin will lead from this point on will be a highly militarized one, rather like the Soviet Union but without the ruling Communist Party.
Sans l’Ukraine, la Russie « cesse d’être un empire, » comme l’explique l’ancien conseiller à la sécurité nationale américaine Zbigniew Brzezinski ; « en revanche, forte d’une Ukraine subornée puis subordonnée, la Russie redevient automatiquement un empire. »