Posted on 02/24/2024 1:44:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A brief look at the origins and history of Russia and the Russian people and the complexity of the region due to its common origins but rich history. My compassion goes out to all those affected by the situation in the region.
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Glad I came across it, then.
History matters. The present matters. It all matters. Stepping back from the politics du jour matters, too. Jomo Kenyatta’s ranch house speech matters, too, perhaps more at this time than Churchill’s “finest hour” speech or Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator closing speech.
It is a very short piece about a very long and complex phenomenon. Its about as accurate as can be within such constraints.
It does not really explain the development of nationalism, in either Russia or the other slavic lands. Russian nationalism, as such, is also a new development of the 19th century.
Legitimacy, since about the time of the French Revolution, is largely about popular will, however expressed. That was an enormous cultural development that played out throughout the 19th-20th centuries, globally. Where that popular will, that sense of identity, came from, is itself complex.
The current conflict is exactly about a clash of competing identities, each based on a romantic-era (19th century) view of ethnology and history (a myth, in effect, as it is not objective history, but history as a motivated narrative), and of power structures based on them. There are two peoples, each convinced of its own myths, that are not compatible with each other.
The Russian myth, as expressed by Putin, is defective in that it requires other people, with their own myth, to see things according to the Russian myth.
Well said.
You’ve restored my faith in this forum.
I have friends at the CIA.
They are good chefs.
Let me know when you get to the part where I should GAGS what you mean by that. Run along.
Go forth and prosper.
Economically, sorry for the confusion.
bloomberg sponsored?
I dunno.
America First will pur Russia back in its place.
Russia is nothing, always was nothing and always will be nothing.
The only thing they ever had going for them was the stolen Nuke tech given to them by the Rosenbergs and rocket tech they took from Germany after WW2.
Just a bunch of losers.
Tell that to translators and readers of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekov. Let’s see you do that Cossack dance of theirs. OK. It was invented by Ukrainians and adopted by Russians, but I haven’t been able to pull it off for the past 20 years. It is tough.
They need to create a the Death of Ukraine video.
Ukraine keeps getting killed and coming back to life, like the mythical phoenix bird. Katherine the Great outlawed their language and made them serfs. The Poles tried to keep them as serfs, too. The Commies starved them to death. Now Putin’s invading them. I gotta admire their moxy, while deploring their corruption, anti-Semitism, wife-beating and alcoholism, at all of which they are highly similar to the Russians. Eastern Europe is usually FUBAR, regardless of the ethnicity and language. But the Ukes are on a path towards self-improvement, and they’ve got moxy. So I’m for them.
His other videos are very interesting, though some a better than others. I’ve been watching these videos for a while now.
I thought we were talking about Russian borders.;
They had been set with Russia failed as a state. In 1991.
The US hasn’t failed horribly in front of the world like that. I understand why they drink and smoke so much. They need to fail again.
The Monroe doctrine was a unilateral assertion that the US only very rarely (if ever) managed to get to stick.
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