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Heard on Today this morning that Putin doesn’t want democracy in Ukraine. The Ukraine people have seen how they were once more affluent than neighbours Poland but since Poland’s political changes they are now less well off and have been demonstrating to have some of what Poland has. Putin doesn’t want the same ‘the grass is greener in a democracy’ to take hold on Russia so can’t afford for Ukraine to go that way.
The speaker suggested the NATO thing is just a smokescreen as he can’t actually give the real reason to the Russian people.