When I met President Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya 30 years ago, he told me that the war waged for the purpose of restoring the empire would last for another 50 years. At the time, I didn’t believe his prediction, but life has proven otherwise. Dudayev was right: until Russia is defeated in the imperial wars it has initiated, none of its neighbors — nor the free world as a whole — can feel safe. A ceasefire with them does not bring peace. Russia has proven this through its behavior since the fall of the Soviet empire. As is well known, Putin called that the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. To paraphrase: the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century would be the restoration of the Russian empire.
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