Warmonger

Alex J. Bellamy

Description

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a war long in the making and is the latest in a series of military interventions that have showcased Vladimir Putin’s deadly imperial ambitions and the ruthless and bloody strategies that serve his vision of a greater Russia. Putin’s Russia wants its empire back and it has taken the events in Ukraine for the West to finally realize it.

Alex Bellamy examines the road to Ukraine 2022 and charts the path from Chechnya, Putin’s first war which helped propel him to the presidency, through to conflict in Georgia, Crimea, the South Caucasus and Syria. He shows the central role war has played in Putin’s rule and how it has helped craft a new social contract between president and people grounded in a shared vision of Russian national identity. For anyone wanting to understand the hows and whys of the war in Ukraine, Alex Bellamy’s clear and insightful analysis is a must-read.

Introduction

1. Collapse

2. Chechnya

3. Georgia

4. Ukraine I

5. Syria

6. Nagorno-Karabakh

7. Shadows

8. Ukraine II

Sujets

• Military Science
• Political Process
• International Relations
• Political Science
• HISTORY
• Borís Yeltsin
• Chechenia
• Ucrania
• Military history
• Boris Yeltsin
• Syria
• General officer
• Military
• Nagorno-Karabakh
• Crimea
• Soviet Union
• Russia
• Politics
• Chechnya
• General
• Boris Eltsine
• Georgia
• Haut-Karabagh
• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques
• Ukraine
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Agenda Publishing
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788216487
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Warmonger Vladîmîr Putîn’s Imperîal Wars

Alex J. Bellamy

© Aex J. Beamy 2023

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Contents

ïnroducîon

1 Coapse 2 Cecnya 3 Georgîa 4 Ukraîne ï 5 Syrîa 6 Nagorno-Karabak 7 Sadows 8 Ukraîne ïï Cronoogy ïndex

1 11 37 57 81 107 129 149 169 191 193

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imperiaism1 a poîcy o exendîng a counry’s power and înLuence roug coonîzaîon, use o mîîary orce, or oer means Oxford Concise Engis Dictionary

Introductîon

Russîa’s învasîon o Ukraîne în ae February 2022 caug many peope by surprîse. ï soud no ave. hîs was an împerîa war ong în e makîng. ï was a war a uIed e ong-ed needs and aspîraîons o Russîa’s presîden, îs aîes and dependens, and a arge secîon o Russîan socîey a ad become wîîng accompîces în and ceeread- ers or e sae’s împerîa projec. To paraprase e socîoogîs Cares Tîy: war made Vadîmîr Puîn, and Vadîmîr Puîn made war. hîs book sows ow.

Lenîngrad

Vadîmîr Vadîmîrovîc Puîn was born în enîngrad, oday’s Saîn Peersburg, în 1952. he cîy young Vadîmîr knew bore e scars o îs grueîng sîege by e Nazîs durîng e Second Word War, a rundown wreck o broken buîdîngs and ungry peope. housands o orpaned, dîsowned and împoverîsed cîdren roamed srees rued by vîoen gangs. Puîn sares îs sîg saure wî many oers o îs generaîon, or ey are e cîdren o ose wo sufered mos. ïndeed, îs may owe someîng o îs moer’s manourîsmen. Young Vadîmîr was raîsed în a sabby and sparan enemen bock were e îvîng accommodaîon was sma and essenîa servîces com- muna. he Puîns were by no means e wors of. heîrs was a mîddîng îesye or 1950s’ enîngrad. Vadîmîr’s aer was a acory oreman. Ater a sîn în e navy, e ad served în an NKVD (secre poîce) unî operaîng beînd enemy înes beore ranserrîng o e reguar army were e was serîousy înjured. Hîs paerna grandaer ad reaced an aogeer more eevaed saus as Saîn’s ce. He ad served enîn

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beore a. Puîn’s moer worked în a acory oo. Vadîmîr was e coupe’s îrd son, bu îs sîbîngs were ong dead beore e was born. He was an unremarkabe scoo suden, bu a resourceu and oug-mînded payer în a very roug cîy. He occasîonay oîered wî e sree gangs bu uîmaey cose a dîferen pa or îmse. îke young peope on bo sîdes o e ïron Curaîn, Vadîmîr was capîvaed by spy movîes. He waned o serve e sae, as îs grandaer ad. Judo cub aug îm e dîscîpîne and ocus e needed. egend as î a e presened îmse o enîngrad’s KGB eadquarers and vouneered or servîce. he bemused oicîas urned îm away and od îm o appy agaîn wen e ad obaîned îs aw degree. ha îs exacy wa e dîd. aw degree în and, Puîn joîned e KGB în 1975. On e surace, e 1970s were a good decade or e Sovîes and a poor one or e Amerîcans. Under eonîd Breznev’s (1964–82) ead- ersîp, e Sovîe Unîon os îs revouîonary zea and gaîned a so- îdness vergîng on e comaose. Bu î ad orged order ou o caos. Buîdîngs ad been rebuî. Facorîes reîgnîed. îveîoods împroved. he Sovîes ed e space race and e mîssîe race. he USSR pu a space saîon îno orbî. ï ad more nucear weapons an anyone ese. ï was surrounded by a rîng o communîs saes wo owed aegîance o Moscow. Wenever ose governmens sepped ou o îne, Sovîe mîg reurned em o e od, usuay wî ease. Budapes 1956. Prague 1968. Kabu 1979, owever, was a dîferen sory. he wors excesses o Saînîs error were ong pas. Dîssîdens were împrîsoned now, bu no so. Mass deporaîons and purges îved on ony în memorîes and suppressed arcîves. By Breznev’s îme, mos ordînary Russîans rarey e e wra o e auorîîes because o eîr poîîca opînîons. Wy woud ey? Mos Russîans were proud o eîr governmen. he Sovîe Unîon was an uncangeabe ac o îe. An însuperabe powerouse a ad împroved eîr îves and samped îse on e word. ïn 1975 Vadîmîr Puîn became par o a grea macîne o power. He coud ook orward o a ong career în e KGB and a îe o înrîgue bu aso o prîde, prîvîege and securîy. Bu a îsn’ ow îngs worked ou.

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INTRODUCTION

Puîn’s Irs decade în e KGB proved ess an gamour-Ied. Hîs îme was mosy spen raînîng and keepîng abs on oreîgners în enîngrad. He ad o waî a decade or îs Irs oreîgn posîng and e opporunîy o use e German anguage skîs e ad exceed a sînce scoo. Bu wen îs ong-anîcîpaed oreîgn posîng came în 1985, î wasn’ o e Cod War’s nerve cenre o Berîn, bu o e Eas German backwaer o Dresden. One vîew îs a as an unexcepîona agen, e was assîgned an unexcepîonabe posîng. A posîng so ar removed rom e word o înernaîona espîonage a e requeny posed or pubîc poos. An aernaîve vîew îs a Puîn anded Sovîe aîd o e Red Army Facîon and oer etîs errorîss operaîng în Wesern Europe. Bo vîews mîg conaîn an eemen o ru. Barey anyone reaîzed a e mîgy Sovîe empîre was on e brînk o coapse. ha e socîa, economîc and ecnoogîca advances everywere vîsîbe resed on a combusîbe mîx o oî revenues and deb. Coapse, wen î came, was unexpeced, swît and devasaîng – especîay or Puîn, a oya servan o wa e oug was e mos poweru sae on ear. Eas Germany was a e epîcenre o e Irs wave o communîs coapse. A ew weeks ater e Berîn Wa was breaced în November 1989, a crowd o proesors descended on e eadquarers o e aed Eas German secre poîce – e Sasî. A sma group broke of rom e maîn demonsraîon and eaded or e KGB’s oice, sîuaed în a arge ouse nearby. hey were me a e gae by an agîaed Russîan. Vadîmîr Puîn warned a e oicers însîde e buîdîng were armed and woud use eîr weapons î e proes- ors broke îno e compound. Decîdîng a dîscreîon was e beer par o vaour, e proesors wîdrew and rejoîned e maîn group a e Sasî buîdîng. An anxîous Puîn reurned o îs oice and caed a Russîan ank unî saîoned nearby or ep. “We canno do anyîng wîou orders rom Moscow” came e rosy repy. “And Moscow îs sîen”. Puîn was sunned. How coud Moscow, e greaes power on ear, be sîen? And ow coud e Sovîe army abandon em o eîr ae? Moscow dîd în ac break îs sîence soon aterwards and e army was despaced o proec e KGB’s ouse. So î’s no quîe rue a no one came o ep e beeaguered Puîn as e presîden aer caîmed. ï’s an apocrypa sory oug, în bo senses o e word,

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