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He does not fear NATO as a military threat. What he fears, however, is that Ukraine will become a west-facing, politically stable and economically prosperous country. 

He also has an ambition that Russia will again become the leader and protector of all Slavic countries, and that he himself will become a kind of new Peter the Great, says Sverre Diesen.

According to Diesen, the most important consequence of the war for the United States is probably the effect on Russian-Chinese relations. An inevitable consequence of the simultaneity of the war and the confrontation with China is that it brings the Chinese and the Russians together.

Incidentally, I must also mention that the USA probably does not take Russia seriously as a great power. For example, a senator has previously stated that "Russia is not a great power, but a petrol station with nuclear weapons", says Diesen.

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