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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!
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.
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.