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Russian State TV Lays Out Plans for New Empire
Newsweek ^ | 9/29/23 | ALISS HIGHAM

Posted on 09/29/2023 4:37:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A Russian propagandist has called for the reinstatement of the Russian Empire, saying that's the country's ultimate goal.

As Russia continues its military offensive against Ukraine, Russian propagandist Sergey Mardan alluded to a misconception that Russia wishes to restore the USSR, which collapsed in 1991, and instead suggested the country could rewind the clock back beyond the days of the Russian Empire.

His comments come as President Vladimir Putin announced a new Russian holiday, the "Day of Unification," on September 30, to mark the illegal annexation of the Dontesk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.

Putin declared them to be new Russian territory a year ago, following referendums not acknowledged under international law and he entrenched the move in the Russian constitution. He made a similar move after the illegal annexation of Crimea, which is celebrated in Russia on March 18.

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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: 20230318; 20230930; alittlepieceofpoland; annexation; crimea; dayofunification; empire; expansionism; invasion; kosovo; notourproblem; putinswar; russellbonnerbentley; russianimperialism; serbia; sudentenland; territorialambition; ussr
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To: Midwesterner53

Putin should have gone after the Baltics. I don’t think Biden is willing to nuke Russia over the Baltics.


41 posted on 09/29/2023 6:40:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ridesthemiles

he’s not going to get it

sometimes you gotta deal with reality


42 posted on 09/29/2023 6:53:33 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

bkmk


43 posted on 09/29/2023 6:55:13 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I actually can see Putin doing just that-scary...


44 posted on 09/29/2023 7:17:17 PM PDT by Texan5
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why would NATO have to go nuclear to defend the Baltics?


45 posted on 09/29/2023 7:41:30 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
Why would NATO have to go nuclear to defend the Baltics?

200,000 troops in the Baltics. NATO would have to threaten to use nuclear weapons to defend the Baltics. Otherwise, after the Russians take it, it'll become Russian territory and if we try to retake it, they'll use nuclear weapons on NATO.

46 posted on 09/29/2023 7:45:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Russia could have moved 200,000 troops into position to invade the Baltics without NATO countering with Baltic defenses, threats to Russian massed troops, combined with threats to Russian cities, and preparations for the elimination of the Russian Navy and Air Force?


47 posted on 09/29/2023 7:51:48 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Midwesterner53

“Just let Putin have Ukraine, he promises he has no more territorial ambitions after that”

Stop it. This tired old analogy is getting shopworn. It is not 1939 and Putin is not Hitler. The Russians can’t even beat a miserable pipsqueak power like Ukraine. How are they going to take on NATO (the USA)?


48 posted on 09/29/2023 9:50:52 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

” U-Toob history professor”

No, stupid, you claim to be the U-Toob history professor by wanting people to watch such crap and claiming those videos make you knowledgeable. You’re a vidiot. Typical millennial.


49 posted on 09/30/2023 4:56:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: rxh4n1
It is not 1939 and Putin is not Hitler

wrong & wrong


50 posted on 09/30/2023 8:08:52 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative

It’s July 1914 and the NeoCons want to fight WW3 over the borders of the Donbass.


51 posted on 09/30/2023 8:19:32 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: rxh4n1

If you don’t know history, you will see it again.


52 posted on 10/02/2023 10:19:26 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

“If you don’t know history, you will see it again.”

Nonsense. It’s just another ethnic border war between cousins. Europe has been fighting those for hundreds of years.


53 posted on 10/02/2023 2:20:07 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

OK, hide in the corner somewhere and convince yourself there is something new under the sun.


54 posted on 10/03/2023 11:14:07 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

“OK, hide in the corner somewhere and convince yourself there is something new under the sun.”

Why should I? This is like I said. I’ll say it again. Another ethnic border war between cousins. Europe has been having those for hundreds of years. We have no business getting involved in them.


55 posted on 10/03/2023 3:02:43 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: MinorityRepublican

Or maybe,
Putin will be remembered as Vlad the Mad ‘Wan-a-be’ Tsar.


56 posted on 10/06/2023 7:16:37 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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