Posted on 01/28/2025 7:23:00 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Moscow has had many chances but repeatedly failed to shed its imperial skin. Defeats in the Crimean War and the Russo-Japanese War did not prompt a reckoning. Unlike Spain, Portugal or Belgium, which relinquished colonies and transitioned into post-imperial nations, Russia viewed its losses as temporary setbacks. Even the Soviet Union’s collapse after the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan didn’t extinguish this imperial ethos.
Russia’s forerunner, Muscovy owed its rise in the 13th century to the role of a tax collector for the Golden Horde, allowing its princes to amass wealth and outmaneuver rivals. In contrast, Kyiv had already thrived for 600 years as a cultural and political hub before Moscow, founded in 1147, even emerged from servitude.
In 1547, Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) pulled off one of history’s greatest cons. Crowning himself “Tsar of All Rus,” he declared Moscow the rightful heir to Kyivan Rus, vaulting over five centuries of separation with a golden crown as a prop. At first, Europe refused to play along. Diplomats, travelers and scholars continued to refer to the realm as “Moscovia,” seen in the maps and manuscripts from the time. The name “Rus” was not inherited from Kyiv — it was stolen.
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This is the type of “think piece” that Lindsay Graham gets off on - the Russians are evil and have to be stopped!!!
Leftist Agitprop to cover their crimes
This is what you would call historical fiction. In actuality, it may be called hysterical fiction.
General Patton said the same thing about Russia 80 years ago.
Oooh oooh ooooh, now write one describing American interference and invasion of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan.
Ukraine cutting off fresh water to Russia’s Crimea naval base had much more to do with it.
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.
George S. Patton
Statement (8 August 1945)
Condensed Timeline of the Ukraine War:
January 2022: Putin says that he will not invade Ukraine.
February 2022: Putin invades Ukraine.
March 2022: Putinists blame Ukraine for the bloodshed, because the Ukrainians did not politely surrender their capital city to the Russians.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow has greatly expanded.
The water supply was interdicted until Crimea was invaded and annexed by Russia.
Ultimately what matters is when and if Western Europe will develop the will and use its wealth to defend itself from external threats. These external threats include imposition of an Islamic state.
Unless something changes immediately most Western European nations will have Islamic majority populations within 25-30 years and their democracies will be replaced with Islamic dictatorships by majority vote of the people. This demographic wave, due to deliberate loose immigration policies, is a greater threat to democratic government in Western Europe than Russia.
The US has a choice. Continue pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into defense of wealthy western countries currently committing cultural suicide or using our resources to defend the homeland, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, rebuild our education system, return to self sufficiency in manufacturing and energy production, while returning to fiscal sanity in the management of the public purse.
The choice is very simple for the American people. It is long past time for taking care of our own priorities and allowing Europe to freely choose its own destiny.
Didn’t the Panama Papers reveal that Ukraine was where a lot of the evidence was being kept that implicated most major political figures in money/drugs/child trafficking? Can’t quite remember the details or if I’m thinking of something else. Remember a documentary tying some stuff from Ukraine to a lot of people. etc? Anyone?
Like so many voices in the media, academia and politics, this above summary statement is long on clarity of stance and hugely short on "so how do we do that."
So -- how do we do that?
Years of sanctions have not worked as yet. Ursula von der Leyn's odd speech at WEF hasn't worked yet. Hope about EU nations' "boots on the ground?" Media stories from many quarters and opinions from opinion makers firing salvos of words, reloading and firing salvos of more words hasn't worked. The Hill's op-ed and director at the University of Amsterdam, Andrew Chakhoyan, hasn't offered an actual plan with any details as of today. So....
How do we do that? More words? Lots more words? Sanctions? Lots more sanctions?
Really, how do we do that?
President Trump will shut down Putin’s invasion by Easter.
It’s pure history what I just read. Putin saying the same crap but denying Ukrainians, who have a different language and history, aren’t a real people.
Your daily doses of propaganda are just becoming ridiculous and laughable. You are going to be the last Zeeper.
Sad.
Wait, I thought they were Nazis. Now they’re leftists.
Wait, I thought they were Nazis. Now they’re leftists.
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