Posted on 07/31/2025 8:27:11 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
During the USSR’s 73 years of existence, the list of wars it waged is enormous—a total of 25, including conflicts in the Caucasus, the Baltics, Finland, Poland, Germany, Japan, Afghanistan, Spain, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Since 1991, Russia has continued to exist in a state of permanent war: Georgia, Chechnya, Syria, and now the most senseless war of all—against Ukraine. Why?
The answer is in the title of this essay: Russia can exist only in a state of permanent war.
Therefore, the goal of the Russia-Ukraine war is war itself. Nothing more.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“ They will not settle for Ukraine.”
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Right.. the hordes will sweep over Western Europe next. Yes, we believe you. /sarc
War demands centralized control, a vertical power structure, no democracy, and no freedom of thought or action. War is a convenient excuse for every problem. War allows failure to be shifted to the “enemy,” whether external or internal.
Without war, Russia cannot exist. Peace—even temporary peace—will inevitably lead to internal tensions, which so far have been smothered by external wars. In peacetime, centrifugal forces could emerge in the country, and the very existence of the Russian state as a single entity would be threatened.
Moreover, the end of the war would require an inevitable transformation of a military economy into a civilian one. But with Russia’s current legal and political structure, this is impossible.
Europe has a long history of conflict. Eventually they learned peace is much better. Perhaps the Russians have just not received the memo.
Russia, post Soviet Union, needed to follow the model set by Japan - it could be part of building a co-prosperity sphere for itself in Asia without being an empire or a bully. Japan learned it could be very successful without an empire and without militarily threatening anyone.
Russia - post-Soviet Union, could have followed Japan’s example. That was not what Putin wanted.
> the list of wars it waged is enormous—a total of 25
Hah! The USA has it beat by far! We’re constantly in a war somewhere because freedom and democracy.
“Very interesting. A very paranoid nation.”
Something to do with 20 MILLION people dying in the past century, thanks to Europe.
I would suggest three things.
First, the population number often cited (144-M)...is probably questionable (even before the last Census). If you throw in a million-dead from the war, plus a million men who exited the country early in the first year...plus families of Russians who left in the first month of the war...I doubt that the country even has in the 130-M range.
Lately, I’ve watched podcasts where Russian bloggers go out to rural village, and the population ‘drop’ is a serious problem (ghost-towns everywhere you look).
Second, Russian banks are in pretty dismal shape. If you did try to converse on some commercial loan for your business expansion...the banks will only discuss business at a 15-percent or better pay-back rate. So loans are pretty unlikely.
Finally, some Russians are now looking at building construction, road renovation, bridge-building....and it’s not Russian men. It’s mostly all migrant men brought in because of the lack of manpower.
The collapse of the Soviet Union.
President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called "historical Russia" and said the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to moonlight as a taxi driver. December 12, 2021
Putin's comments, released by state TV on Sunday, are likely to further fuel speculation about his foreign policy intentions among critics, who accuse him of planning to recreate the Soviet Union and of contemplating an attack on Ukraine, a notion the Kremlin has dismissed as fear-mongering.
"It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union," Putin said of the 1991 breakup, in comments aired on Sunday as part of a documentary film called "Russia. New History", the RIA state news agency reported.
"We turned into a completely different country. And what had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost," said Putin, saying 25 million Russian people in newly independent countries suddenly found themselves cut off from Russia, part of what he called "a major humanitarian tragedy".
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-rues-soviet-collapse-demise-historical-russia-2021-12-12/
No one likes them. Understandable.
Whatever thinking the Russians follow and teach their children, it creates a soul stealing, human spirit killing kind of place, government and society.
From where I’m thinking, it looks like the Russians are caught in a mental/emotional trap from which they can’t break free: a Tsar-like president in perpetual power, oligarchs, organized crime, corruption and excuses replacing law and order and justice at every level everywhere, with low productivity and addiction replacing innovation and creativity, a locked down society where God-given human freedom mainly exists underground and via the black market economy.
The demonrat party here thinks similar thoughts, too, and behave in similar ways that show how power corrupts, how the corrupt seek power and what they do with it when in power, with the results found in any major American city where demonrat’s have been in power for a long time.
“”””Russia cannot live without war—it will inevitably find its next victim: one of the Central Asian republics, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, maybe even one of the Baltic states—someone. “”””
Dozens of nations militaries and much of the world’s wealth are devoted to protection from Russia, and the knowledge of its nature of eternal appetite.
If the Russians want Europe they will have to fight Islam for it.
Wakarimasu/comprende/kabish/dig it.
Maybe that’s why the left thinks Trump’s in bed with Putin.
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