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Richard Blumenthal: “Putin wants to restore the old Russian empire.”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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CT Mirror Presents: "In The Room: A Conversation with US Senator Richard Blumenthal"

Published | Video Starts at 54:31

His aggression will be aimed at Poland, at Estonia, at Latvia, at Lithuania. They know it. They've lived under Russian rule. They have no illusions about what Putin's strategy is here. He Putin wants to restore the old Russian empire. And what we're watching here is a slow motion Munich of appeasement. Appeasement never works. And if we haven't learned that from history, we are dumber than I think we are. (54:31–54:34)

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Asserts that Putin's strategy is to restore the old Russian empire.

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