Posted on 07/25/2019 9:46:13 PM PDT by bitt
I wholeheartedly agree with your assesment and agree that Russia “deserves” to have friendly countries along its borders.
Read the entire interview, Stone repeated the Brooks Brother thugs talking point and then Stone talks about going to the Supreme Court like it was part of a coup. The guy was a bigger idiot in the interview than Putin.
Read the entire interview, Stone repeated the Brooks Brother thugs talking point and then Stone talks about going to the Supreme Court like it was part of a coup. The guy was a bigger idiot in the interview than Putin.
“” “” The other problem with the Ukraine via Russia is during the communists, massive numbers of ethnic Russians were settled there, especially in the Eastern parts.
They did the same with other parts of the Soviet Union. Huge numbers of ethnic Russians in the Baltic states, Moldova, Kaliningrad (used to be East Prussia), and Kazakhstan.”” “”
I mostly agree about Baltic states and Kaliningrad but Ukraine and Kazakhstan are different stories.
Western reading of the Ukrainian history is akin to an Old Negro space program. It is just absolutely disconnected from reality.
The truth is Ukraine was always more like a hypothetical construction located in the extreme West of its current borders. It was a contested territory between Russia and Poland for centuries but more like no man’s land. For understandable reason the population developed certain anti-Polish and anti-Russian element periodically exploited by either foreign country.
One important point. The territory in question never included any land east of river Dniepr. Nobody ever thought of Southeast Ukraine as Ukraine before 1920s.
Eastern Ukraine is the entirely new concept which first appeared after the Bolshevic revolution which among other things used Ukrainian nationalism to destroy Russian empire.
Nobody ‘moved’ anyone into East Ukraine from Russia. The Russians lived there for centuries since Kiev itself was a historical Russian capital. The opposite is true actually because it was Western people who moved East after it was incorporated into a new entity now known as Ukraine.
The Bolshevic idea was pushed further in 1940s under Nazi occupation with German propaganda largely around the same anti-Russian angle but at this point Communists weren’t interested and it was suppressed after the eviction of Nazi.
The remnants of it reappeared in 1992 and here we have it.
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