[Chad C. Mulligan]

I've posted this again and again:

Just after the WW2 Tehran Conference, Stalin said to a journalist, (roughly translated):

"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."

Putin is channeling Stalin, and hopes to succeed where Stalin failed

Never forget that modern-day Russian culture is largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.

You're not Russophobic if the Russians really are out to get you.

[ryderann]

“Putin is channeling Stalin, and hopes to succeed where Stalin failed.”

This should be interesting. Soros is channeling Hitler, and hopes to succeed where Hitler failed.”

[jobim]

But did Putin say anything about the United States that you disagree with?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Slavs (Slaves) have never run anything successfully as nations or any other endeavor that lasts.

This wet dream of Russian Nationalism is laughable.
Travel their cities and they can’t even clean their rubbish or remove crashed cars from the roadside. Piles of it all over.

Travel the countryside and you go back effectively 150 years in time with the mentality and attitude of that population.

Yes they have nukes. So do others. Big deal. Russia took 7 months to conquer a measly region of Ukraine.

They’ll turn the rest of the country into a pile of rubble to prove their point.

Mongols you say? Absolutely!

[Long Jon No Silver]

Stalin wasn’t even a slav, so pan-slavism wasn’t his thing. If the mongol invasions explain what you see as Russian barbarism, what explains German barbarism?

[Buttons12]

Never forget that modern-day Russian culture is largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century.

That is basically the wisdom handed down in my family by the Russians in the tree. Russia is comprised of the descendants of sadistic Mongols and the people they conquered. They're either bullying the weak (because they despise the weak) or they're wallowing in their victimhood, and you will find both characteristics in some individuals.

Putin seems to be a classic case, bullying Ukraine, and now whining about being victimized by the wicked West.

[Republican Wildcat]

Exactly. A basic understanding of history and Putin’s rhetoric, which is quite reminiscent of communist party / USSR rhetoric from the days of old, makes that quite clear.