Here is a link to the report Rachel talked about this last week:

[Ilsa]

Russian Strategic

Intentions: A Strategic Multilayer Assessment”. 

https://nsiteam.com/sma-white-paper-russian-strategic-intentions/

Go to this link for the executive summary, and you can download the white paper.

[empedocles]

1. Thank you

[Ilsa]

2. Here is a snip:

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There is broad consensus among the contributors that Russian President Vladimir Putin is indeed adhering to a global grand strategy, which aims to achieve the following goals:

Reclaim and secure Russia’s influence over former Soviet nations
Regain worldwide recognition as a “great power”
Portray itself as a reliable actor, a key regional powerbroker, and a successful mediator (Katz; Borshchevskaya) in order to gain economic, military, and political influence over nations worldwide and to refine the liberalist rules and norms that currently govern the world order (Lamoreaux)

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[Farmer-Rick]

3. They should add

And kill off as many Russians as possible in nuclear handling incompetence and disasters. Non-Radioactiv living space in Russia gets smaller everytime Putin has a grand plan.