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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Trump not calling Putin yet and focusing on deportations is pure genius. First things first. Art of the Deal.
Well if the CIA/State Department hadn’t helped overthrow the Ukraine in 2014 in order to camp weapons on Putin’s border, then Putin wouldn’t have invaded 4 days after the coup in Ukraine. Trump has said (paraphrasing), “Many Americans don’t realize our State Department worked to overthrow the Ukraine.”
The CIA’s Nuland is on tape ‘picking’ the new officials for overthrown Ukraine.
THe Deep State wanted to force regime change in Russia in order to gain control of Russia’s nuke arsenal. They planned on using the US arsenal, controlled via Brandon, and the newly captured Russian arsenal, to finally take control of the world and set up their globalist One WOrld Government.
But they failed, and now Ukraine has cities wherein not a single building is left standing, which is why Trump said (paraphrasing), “You hear ‘SAVE THE UKRAINE’ and then you see cities without a single building left standing. That’s a 110 year reconstruction project.”
So NATO’s proxy war has devastated Ukraine, but NATO doesn’t care what happens to the Ukrainians. Neither does Zelensky. The citizens have been used like cannon fodder. Meanwhile, shills are trying to rewrite history. The OP of this thread is propaganda.
No argument there.
Now how about "next week's negotiations between Trump team and Ukraine in DC." Have you a source?
Some things never change.
You really think that the thinking of the Russian government and its people have changed in the last 80 years?
And, how would that be?
Maybe they should have followed Victoria Nuland’s plan
The real reason Russia invaded Ukraine was because your FR "Bash Faux News" trolling schtick was falling flat, and you needed to get A New Troll.
This is when your Elensky obliged by listening to Boris the Clown, and shifting into brain-dead Ukie mode.
Interesting how your State Department handlers had you refine the one-liner trolling thing.
You really think that the thinking of the Russian government and its people have changed in the last 80 years?
And, how would that be?"
Lets’s just flip that racist bull rap right around by changing it around.....
Some things never change.
You really think that the thinking of the Israeli government and its jews have changed in the last 80 years?
And, how would that be?
Again, where is your evidence NATO “instigated” Russia?
Exhibit A: Lindsey Graham.
Patton said it, but it doesn’t make it right. You are a racist prick with your Anti-Asian racism claiming Asians are inferior or evil. The Nazis said the same garbage to justify Barbarossa. Russians were Asiatics and hence inferior, only deserving to be wiped out and their lands taken.
That’s not an answer. What specifically did NATO do to instigate the invasion???
Poked the bear.
Non-answer. I’m going to assume you are either ignorant at best, or a Putin parrot at worst.
Racist?
That trope ceased to exist with me a long time ago.
Got anything else other than insults?
Don’t care why they did it.
It’s a waste of people and a waste of resources.
If Putin used the money spent on this in his own country, his people could be educated and they could flourish. Instead, his wife and daughter live in luxury in Switzerland while an entire generation of Russian men decompose in Ukraine.
The Russian people are at fault; they should put an end to this. But they are a hard headed people. They will continue to die in large numbers.
As Vonnegut put it, “So it goes…”
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