title: Russia: An Adventure to Restore the Empire
abstract: The official Russian position in the Ukrainian crisis is based on a reversal of reality: Ukraine is accused of deceit, the European Union of aggression, and the United States of pulling the strings behind the scenes. Russia is presented as a victim, and its agents in Donbass as freedom fighters. Moscow does not care if its arguments are believable or not and appears ready to sever its historic ties with Europe in order to adopt a Eurasian identity whose only characteristic seems to be the reject
journal: American Foreign Policy Interests