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Ukraine’s offensive inches forward in search of a breakthrough (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] Ulara@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Funny thing about empires is that the meaning of their existence is to expand. They either expand or collapse. Hence expansion is of existential importance for them. I guess this has to do with the principle of their growth: it's extensive, instead of intensive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensive_growth

Another reason why the Russian empire wants Ukraine is to secure its borders by mountain ridges - in this case, Carpathian mountains. Nowadays it makes less sense, since missiles quickly fly over any mountains - but their archaic thinking, induced by former invasions, still persists.