Robert Gates says Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate Russian Empire

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Robert Gates says Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate Russian Empire

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it is his destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

What Happened: Gates said in an interview on the NBC's Meet the Press that the Russian president had made it part of his vision to retake old territories to recreate the Kremlin's former geographic sphere of influence.

Putin believes that it is his destiny to recreate the Russian Empire. Gates said that without Ukraine, there can be no Russian Empire as my old mentor, Zbig Brzezinski.

Also: Putin Losing Thousands Of Soldiers, Says Ukrainian President: They Just Throw Them Into The Meat Grinder So he is obsessed with retaking Ukraine. He will hang in there, he added.

Gates, criticizing Putin, said he s doing what Russian armies have always done, and sending large numbers of poorly equipped and poorly trained conscripts to the frontlines in the belief that mass will overcome. The Russian president is preparing to launch a new offensive in Ukraine amid a series of setbacks. Reports indicate that Putin will start his offensive sometime in February or March - sometime before Kyiv gets the promised supplies of U.S. and German battle tanks.

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