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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5157872" data-attributes="member: 48469">Putin is putting us at risk for war. He&#039;d have already tried to reconstitute the Soviet Union if NATO were not standing in his way. [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7632057[/URL]&quot;Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.In his annual state of the nation address to parliament and the country’s top political leaders, Putin said the Soviet collapse also was a tragedy for Russians.“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said. “As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5157872, member: 48469"] Putin is putting us at risk for war. He'd have already tried to reconstitute the Soviet Union if NATO were not standing in his way. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7632057[/URL] "Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia. In his annual state of the nation address to parliament and the country’s top political leaders, Putin said the Soviet collapse also was a tragedy for Russians. “First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said. “As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory." [/QUOTE]

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