The Realist Perspective
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My god. You actually wrote this for real.
Oh so what is he doing then?
Tucker Carlson is in Russia
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Oh so what is he doing then?
The same shyt Valeria Velez did for Pablo Escobar in Narcos.
The same shyt Sean Hannity does for Donald Trump.
Let’s hope the West leads to the disintegration of an imperialistic slavic dictator’s nation led by china needing more territory.Russia is currently winning in Ukraine. Bakhmut fell. Avdiivka is about to fall in the coming weeks. It outnumbers Ukraine in terms of artillery firepower and is grinding down the Ukrainian Army whose average age is 43. Furthermore, Ukraine is factionalizing - Zelenskyy just fired General Zaluzhny today after receiving report from Victoria Nuland.
My comments on the Putin interview (part II):
- You can tell Putin hates the Lenin/Stalin policy of respecting Soviet nationalities and granting them their own republics. Communists in Soviet Republics like Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ukraine (like Trotsky!) understood that the USSR had to offer some sort of recognition to constituent republics. Otherwise the whole thing would resemble the Russian Empire.
- This is why I find it funny when Coli imperialists claims that the USSR was an Empire. The USSR was created and led by ethnic Ukrainians, Georgians, Poles etc. who voluntarily led their constituent regions to join the Soviets in 1917
- Putin is kinda right in that ethnic Ukrainians didn't really live in the Crimea before the creation of the Soviet Union. It was populated by Russians and Crimean Tatars. But this is at the tension of modern Europe -
- Is Europe made up of nation-states or states which are multicultural. This is kind of rich of Russia, given that Russia is like 60-70 per cent Russian max...The same could be said of Russia, really.
The best thing biden ever did was drop a few hundred thousand Russian soldiers by not abandoning Ukraine.
Russia literally swallowed entire ethnic enclaves a century before USA’s westward expansion
If he wants to go down that route then why doesn't he come and take Alaska? It used to be Russian land. What's stopping him?Posting my own comments of Putin's interview (part I):
- Putin is essentially claiming that Russia has two ancestral geographic origins - Kiev and Novgorod. Historiography of the Eastern Slavs leans towards Kiev having a greater importance between the two.
- The focus on Polish-Lithuania is interesting. I think he's trying to argue that Ukraine doesn't really exist. The geography of modern Ukraine has always been multiethnic. Up until the Russian Revolution, most urbanites living in Ukraine were ethnic Russians, Jews, or Poles. Obviously, Crimean Tatars lived in Ukraine but many fled during the Russian Empire's war with the Ottomans. Western Ukraine was mostly Polish until Ukrainian fascists ethnically cleansed that part of Ukraine.
- The above point isn't really strong if you believe in a multicultural Ukraine. But many Ukrainians are ethno-nationalist which, ironically, weakens their claims over the Donbas and Crimea since those places don't really view themselves as ethnic Ukrainians.
- Weird to skip the Mongol conquest of Eastern Europe...that led to the rise of Muscovy and the formation of the modern Russian state.
Poland was accused of being an accomplice of the Nazis in 1938! Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts - Wikipedia.
Dude is complete mental
Russia colonized neighborhood states because they were not close to the seas like the western powers at the time.
Part II( of my reflections:
- Putin really, really hates the idea of a sovereign Ukraine. The Ukrainian nationalist identity was formed in the late 19th century and is stronger than ever. There is no way that Ukrainians will let them be absorbed by Russia. If Putin's war aim is to destroy Ukraine, he will fail. If his war aim is to cripple Ukraine, that may yet work...he has taken Crimea, the Donbas, millions of Ukrainians have fled and are not returning, and if he stays in a frozen conflict it'll be tough for Ukraine to join NATO.
- Putin's comments about Hungarian irredentism fully explains Viktor Orban's hostility to Ukraine. Hungary wants his lands back. Poland, unsurprisingly, doesn't hold that same attitude. Ethnic Poles in Ukraine were killed or ethnically cleansed in the 1940s by Ukrainian fascists. And Poland hates/fears Russia more than a broken Ukraine.
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
You’re Pakistani
America basically has done the worst thing a country can do - foreign policy wise. Involve itself in Old World tribalism/irrendentism. The tribe you back may lose. In this case, the Ukrainians are losing...
Eventually, Americans will ask if they want their sons to die for places like Alsace-Lorraine, the Donbas, Gaza and the West Bank.
Eventually, Americans will ask if they want their sons to die for places like Alsace-Lorraine, the Donbas, Gaza and the West Bank.
"Ethnic enclaves" - you mean entire countries such as the Khanate of Sibir...
Anyway, I don't see the US giving lands back to the Lakota or the Cherokee so what's your point?
You are TRULY a fukking idiot.
Europeans DO NOT want to rejoin Russia and are preparing themselves against it.
Poland has already prepared by becoming the largest military in Europe. Let’s hope Russia trips on their own feet. Putin already fukked up and made himself a slave to China.
Congrats on that “victory”
Russia is closer to breaking up than you realize.
One last thing - Putin is right. America violated international law when it attacked Serbia in 1999.
The UN Charter prohibits the use of force except in the case of a decision by the Security Council under Chapter VII, or self-defence against an armed attack – neither of which were present in this case.
The UN Charter prohibits the use of force except in the case of a decision by the Security Council under Chapter VII, or self-defence against an armed attack – neither of which were present in this case.
