[piafraus]

> Putin wants to return to USSR borders, which is a motivation of conquest.

It's kinda funny that you used the term straw man and than immediately created another one

[smt88]

If only there were mountains of journalism and scholarship to back that fact up...

(Also, that's not what a straw man argument is.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26769481

https://cepa.org/putin-is-determined-to-rebuild-the-russian-...

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-12-01/vladim...

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/russian-media-essay-celebra...