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#putins strategy is the #RussianPlaybook, described by Marx in and known since the middle of the 19th century:
"Counting on the cowardice and apprehensions of the Western powers, he [the Tsar] bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible, in order to appear magnanimous afterwards, by contenting himself with what he immediately wanted."
NYDT 05.08.1853
"And as sure as conquest follows conquest, and annexation follows annexation, so sure would the conquest of Turkey by Russia be only the prelude for the annexation of Hungary, Prussia, Galicia, and for the ultimate realisation of the Slavonic Empire which certain fanatical Panslavistic philosophers have dreamed of."
NYDT 12.04.1853
S: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/russia/crimean-war.htm