Posted on 06/26/2022 2:28:21 PM PDT by Cronos
Muscowy started off in the 12th century as an outpost of one of the Kievan Rus dukedoms.
After the Mongols slaughtered Kievan Rus, Muscowy Dukes offered and became tax collectors for the Great Khan.
As Muscowy progressed, it took over the various Jochi and Chagatai Khanates.
Modern day “Russia” takes something from Kievan Rus, but more from the Mongol khaganate
There were about 900 members of the Azov battalion and only a fraction were neo Nazis.
The neo nazis didn’t even get a seat in the Ukrainian version of Congress.
There are more neo nazis in Russia and fighting on Putin’s side, see the Wagner group
Putin invaded Ukraine twice, in 2014 and in 2022.
No amount of your spin can change that
Poots is a thug. There are worse in line to replace him.
Nope. The USA isn’t willing out anyone.
Take your anti American attitude to the Demoncrats
Pavel Gubarev is a Ukrainian pro-Russian activist who proclaimed himself the "People's Governor" of the Donetsk Region at the Regional Assembly on 3 March 2014, after separatists seized the building. Gubarev had earlier declared himself leader of the Donbas People's Militia.
Putin's fascists: The Russian state's long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis
or better yet, here's an article from 2017,
Their last verified statement on civilian deaths in Ukraine as a consequence of the nonexistent genocide was... Less than fifty. In an entire calendar year.
Now published in English, on their own website, presumably so that people who insist it’s western lies can’t argue that this is in effect the Russian government’s own proxy calling bullshit on Putin’s phony Causus Belli.
https://eng.ombudsman-dnr.ru/annual-reports/
A year after that report was published, Putin readied the invasion force. To stop a genocide 2 years after it ended.
https://eng.ombudsman-dnr.ru/ukrainian-militants-tried-to-raze-mariupol-to-ground-daria-morozova/
The Azov Nazi genocide Putin claim is a lie so bare-faced that even the DPR can’t defend it
They had two years to polish that annual report which effectively said the DPR and Kyiv were having significant success at ending the violence without Russian interference... They could easily have buried it.
Instead, they’ve translated it to English and published it.
It’s now in the public domain. Putin lied. Source? The DPR.
Would Mariupol have been razed at all if Putin hadn’t sent his troops, Wagner and Kadyrovites in?
No. Funnily enough, Azov didn’t have the manpower, let alone that kind of firepower, needed to turn Mariupol into ruins. Russia did though.
Yes and no.
Putin is a thug, yes - he ran his mafia in St. Petersburg become coming to power in 2000.
However his gang of goons are not capable of cooperating - Putin has killed off any potential threat, so he has no successor.
He’s like Ceausescu - once the mask falls, everything falls
he won’t stay in power - no more than your idol Lavrentiy Beria did. Putin has no deemed successors, there will be a fall of his Nazi regime.
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