Posted on 04/09/2022 9:31:05 AM PDT by dennisw
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Lots of us on here have been preaching this.
They are cruel, barbarous people. It stems from, like the man said, the Mongols.
And if anyone thinks the Ukrainians are different..they are mistaken. They were ruled in the Crimea area, for years after the Tartars were kicked out of Russia proper, by the Khans.
Very great article you posted!
When the last domino, Ukraine, falls, the 32 nation military behemoth, NATO, will be on Russia’s border, 300 miles from Moscow. This offensive machine, by far, is the most destructive the world has ever seen. It is composed of ex Warsaw Pact member states who were living through Russia’s brutal 70 reign of terror as recently as 30 years ago. The kingpin of this alliance openly brags that regime change is paramount in this virulently anti Russian super super alliance. If you take a minute and reflect you will understand the 2022 Russian mindset. And Putin noticed! OMG, the nerve of that guy.
I posted this yesterday under the intelligence officer’s title.
Russian strategic culture: Why Russia does things the way it does
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4053426/posts
There are some good, and some not so good, comments there.
A simpler and much shorter explanation is that Russia has always had an inferiority complex relative to the west.
Putin saw the pathetic and shameful retreat from Afghanistan, showing that we had no fight in us, a decaying western culture that’s getting more rotten by the day, and a Europe that foolishly made itself totally dependent on Russian energy... Can anyone ask blame him for striking while the iron is hot?
Add to that his belief that what he was facing with Ukraine and NATO was his equivalent of our Cuban missile crisis plus his belief that he had a mighty army that could overrun the Ukrainian in days - and voila you have a war.
He was right in everything except the last part - his military proved to be a joke.
This is not going to help his inferiority complex.
Thanks and key for me also was Mongols. Their influence on the Russian mentality. Look at Brezhnev and you see Mongol in him. Same Mongol look for Putin’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu who was born in the far east of Russia.. I have read that Sergei Shoigu is pushing Putin to turn Eastward and align with CCP.
Where was Sergei Shoigu?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-was-sergei-shoigu-russia-e2-80-99s-missing-defense-minister-resurfaces/ar-AAVx0MG?ocid=uxbndlbing
MULTI-CULTI-POOTY in his sentimental Tsarist preaching mode>>>>
Putin: ‘At such moments, I am a Lak, Dagestani, Chechen, Ingush, Russian, Tatar, Jew, Mordvin, Ossetian...’
10:39, 04.03.2022
https://m.realnoevremya.com/articles/6228-putin-at-such-moments-i-am-a-lak-dagestani-chechen-ingush
Thanks... Many comments that I will look at!
It’s a worthy repost, an insightful commentary. And I didn’t work to cut’n’paste the whole thing, so that’s worthwhile.
The thing is, mix this with the Mongol mentality and then add Muslim..
I think anyone would get the picture.
Fact is, I doubt many here would know who the very first Tsar of Russia was and that he was the nastiest.
I suppose when you grow up hating everything around a person tends to hate everyone around.
Like I said..the Ukrainians are no different even if they pretend to be different. It has only been since the fall of the Soviet system that the whole region has kind of gone towards a civilized society. This fight ends that.
Let em kill each other off. Contain it and once it is all over they’ll have got it out of their system for a few years.
Pass!
Regards,
Made it through the whole thing (while sitting in a very western McDonald’s parking lot). Well worth my time. P.S. lots of Russians are ticked off about the fast food chain being closed.
Ivan The Terrible — I had to look it up. Yeah, he was bad ass.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/first-tsar-russia-0011132
Russia has been at NATO borders since 1999.
And it is defensive against Putin’s aggression.
“At NATO’s borders since 1999”!?!
Yeah right, as NATO hegemony has been moving east up to the Russian border since 1991. Remember NATO and DC’s promise of “not one inch east” of the East German border. Man, you have to make up a little more sellable BS than that reply. You have to remember, what Biden sells his hinterland stooges doesn’t work on people with functioning brains. “At NATO’s border”, what a globalist useful idiot. Keep the comedy coming, you’ve found something you’re good at.
NATO is an alliance of countries, so not a hegemony.
Furthermore, why did Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Czech republic etc. join NATO?
Because Russia was and is (under Putin) a threat.
If Russia was not a threat, then NATO would not have people clamoring to be members
headspunned Remember NATO and DC’s promise of “not one inch east” of the East German border. --> Why do you keep repeating this lie?
Russia was not told nor promised anything of the sort.
- the USSR was discussing with the USA, France and the UK about allowing the Germanies to reunite. Note: the USSR, not Russia
- the USSR was told not NATO troops in Eastern Germany.
- at that point in 1989, the Soviet bloc was still around and there was every indication it would last a long time more, do NATO moving into those areas was not dreamed of by either side nor discussed.
- so no promise was made to “Russia” about Poland, the Baltic etc joining NATO as it was not even a dream at that point
- Gorbachev himself said that mo such promise was made
Gorbachev and the documents show ZERO promise not to enlarge
Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”
In NATO leadership’s own words. Quit stooging for your warmongering DC oligarchs.
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