Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an hour-long televised speech from his Kremlin office yesterday.

Most of the speech consisted of Putin giving his views on the history of Russia and Ukraine.

Carl Bildt says that he "rose" during the speech.

According to him, Putin is completely out of touch with the world.

- It was a very strange speech.

Incoherent, unbalanced, dangerous.

All sorts of weird theses, he says.

Carl Bildt reacted in particular to Putin's claim that Ukraine was invented by the Soviet Union and that its territory would historically be Russian soil.

- You were amazed.

He seems to live in a world of nationalist myths and musty imperial nostalgia.

There is no one who stands up for this very peculiar history writing that shapes this world of this powerful man.

It's dangerous.

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"Is not about Donbass"

According to Carl Bildt, it is likely that Vladimir Putin himself believes in his own description of history, an image that motivates his actions in the world today.

There is much to suggest that Putin is not content with recognizing the breakaway states in eastern Ukraine, he said.

- He has launched an invasion and unfortunately declared quite clearly what he wants.

It's not about Donbass, it's Ukraine, Kiev.

- His forces are ready to roll towards Kiev with just hours' notice to overthrow the Ukrainian state and install some form of puppet regime.

It will be very difficult, bloody and very dangerous if it happens.

Unfortunately, if one is to interpret what he himself says, then there is a significant risk that this is where we are headed.

Researcher: Became a hobby historian

According to Russian researcher Marin Kragh, Putin has for a long time returned to his alternative historiography to explain his actions.

- It was intensified in 2014 during the Crime Annexation.

Step by step, he has become a kind of hobby historian who writes his own essays, he says.

Vladimir Putin should not always have used this rhetoric.

During the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the tone was different, according to Martin Kragh,

- Then they have tried to use international law arguments.

Yesterday, it was only historical arguments and perceived injustices that Putin listed very carefully.