he said so before the war, before this there was a full-scale war , there was an article by vladislav surkovharacter where he spoke about the fact that if russia does not expand, then it will fall apart. that is, it is such an export of chaos, as he called it. and this is the form in which it can exist. that is, it can only exist by seizing foreign lands, because if it does not do this, if it tolerates the fiasco in this entropy is this entropy, this mess, it will turn inside russia, that is, russian ideologues themselves openly talk about it, and because of that , of course, the defeat of russia in ukraine will mean big problems inside russia itself, russians they know how in a world where small states are very successful, for example, like switzerland and belgium, how can the ideology of expansion remain attractive, why expand if you can be successful on such a patch of land somewhere in the mountains, well , this is an old imperial tradition, the tradition of the so-called continental empires that developed from at the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, the ide