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Russia’s main state news agency RIA Novosti posted, then removed a piece with invaluable insight into what Putin wanted to gain from the war he waged against Ukraine. Apparently, the war was supposed to end on Feb. 26 with

full irreversible capitulation.

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Наступление России и нового мира

Новый мир рождается на наших глазах. Военная операция России на Украине открыла новую эпоху — причем сразу в трех измерениях. И конечно, в четвертом,... РИА Новости, 26.02.2022

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2. Putin was supposed to emerge a victorious unifier, savior and the leader of the “Russian world” announcing immediately after the defeat of Kyiv a new state that included “all three parts of the Russian nation” - Ru, Ukraine, Belarus.

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Fatima Tlis

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3. In this “new world” the “anti-Russian” Ukraine no longer exists. Russia is now back to its “original self, whole again,” and a global monolith, which does not have to follow the rules imposed by others but dictates its own rules to the world.

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Fatima Tlis

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The entire ~3,000 words piece is significant for it gives a glimpse into the apparently troubled mind of Russia’s leader, but this part below is probably the most important: to Putin the existence of independent Ukraine caused a struggle with a «national humiliation complex.”