Empire and Revenge: Outlining Vladimir Putin’s Motivations for War
Journal: México y la Cuenca del Pacífico
Year: 2023

The invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 triggered a multitude of debates between pundits and policy makers alike over Russia's, and more specifically, Vladimir Putin's motivations in invading Ukraine.Without oversimplifying excessively, on the one hand, one group argued that Putin's move was understandable given the fact that since the end of the Cold War, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) expansion was bringing the alliance dangerously close to Russia's traditional sphere of influen