Although most people were shocked by the sudden invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces acting on the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in hindsight it is clear that this eventuality was always on his agenda.
It is well known that Putin had publicly lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union, in which he was a KGB intelligence officer stationed in East Germany.
It is instructive to look at the exact words he used in April 2005, in his Presidential address to the Russian parliamen…
