The Following Goals Of Putin Have Been Named

And they are not in the EU at all.

Putin could arrange destabilization in Armenia and Kazakhstan, according to Seth Crospey and Joseph Epstein, president and senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute. Their opinion piece was published by The Washington Post on November 3.

The authors began their piece by stating that "Putin is headed for the next stop." They believe that Russia is not in a position to repeat a full-scale invasion in other countries, as it did in Ukraine, but it could resort to covert influence campaigns, disinformation, destabilization and even military and intelligence operations.

"Alarming signals" are emerging in Kazakhstan and Armenia, former Soviet Union republics, Crospey and Epstein wrote. They believe that Moscow has stepped up efforts to destabilize these countries in recent months.

The publication notes that in northern Kazakhstan, where Russians predominantly live, Russian security services have tried to provoke unrest, and in Armenia, a church accused of having ties to Russian intelligence has opposed the government. In addition, a pro-Kremlin businessman was arrested in Armenia as part of a coup plotting case.

This reminds The Washington Post of Russia's strategy toward Ukraine: stoke discontent in Russian-speaking regions, finance friendly oligarchs (the former MP from the banned OPZJ party, Putin's crony Viktor Medvedchuk) and win over the local Orthodox Church.

Kazakhstan is "particularly vulnerable" to Russia, experts say. They recall that Kazakhstan's army is "weaker than Ukraine's," and the 7,400-kilometer-long Russian-Kazakh border is "virtually unprotected."

Krospi and Epstein doubt Putin will strike Kazakhstan, but are confident that the Kremlin chief could "prepare the ground" for it, and say Kazakhstan's "best defense" is to tie itself to China, Turkey, the United States and the European Union, raising the political and economic price of aggression.

Russian politicians and experts, including Putin himself, have previously spoken of Kazakhstan as a country that "has never had statehood," and Russian propagandists regularly accuse Kazakh authorities of "Russophobia" and call for the protection of ethnic Russians, as they previously did for Ukraine's Crimea and Donbass, Crospey and Epstein warn.

As for Armenia, they believe Moscow is interested in derailing the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan signed with US participation. The reason is to regain leverage on the "Middle Corridor" - a trade route connecting Asia and Europe bypassing Russia and Iran. The publication also states that now "Georgia is also leaning towards Russia".

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