Does Putin's vision of Russia more closely resemble the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Soviet Union

Russian Empire

[Guy13]

Either way at this point…Truth is it’s the same thing EXCEPT the Empire approach is a cleaner Swindle/Fleece than the Lenin Workers Swindle/Fleece. Think of it this way…Empire Crowd are the “Capitalist”.

[EssenceOfLight]

He said clearly, his goal is to expand Russia back to boarders of 1990. I think this answers this question.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

There's a lot more to a view of the future of a country than the borders.

[EssenceOfLight]

Oligarchy isn't willing to invest in infrastructure or education, because oligarchs are those who always take and never give.

[jshm2]

Neither.

Russia doesn't want a return to the Bloc or an empire. It just wants it's own corner to be safe from US expansionism.

The USA is the out of control relic that should have been broken up along with the Soviet Union.

[goaded]

Oh, rubbish! First of all "Russia" doesn't want anything, Putin does. I'm sure Russians would be far happier without trillions of dollars of wealth being extracted from their country by a bunch of crooks. Secondly, "US expansionism" isn't a thing. Countries are joining NATO (and the EU) because they want to, not because they're being forced to, and there were and are good reasons for that, including what's happening to Ukraine right now. The only way that the US is currently "out of control" is because a major political party has just decided that they don't want to play along with democracy any more. With luck, and a media that finally notices and stops treating lies as the same as the truth, that will end. Democratically.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

@goaded And Ukraine pursued NATO membership because in 1993, Russia signed a treaty that gave Ukraine a security guarantee in exchange for nuclear disarmament. When they violated this in 2014 with the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine had to search elsewhere for security (i. e. NATO).

And yeah, Ukraine was promised/offered NATO membership in 2008 BUT most Ukrainians didn't want to join NATO until after 2014.

[zagor]

Nazi Germany.