Posted on 11/12/2023 4:21:24 AM PST by tlozo
Like Golda Meir said, Russians bring nothing but misery.
this is why Ukraine and Moldova must both be brought under the NATO umbrella
because Putin won’t stop attacking otherwise
You got a problem with that?
Empires became empires because their economy is based on conquest and taxation. They take a territory and suck it dry and then they must take another territory and suck that dry. Rome went through the entire cycle, finally becoming so big it fell apart under its own weight. All taxes in the Russian federation are paid to Moscow and then reapportioned to the satellite states. As there is less and less money those states are getting fractious and wanting to break away so they can manage their own futures.
What broke the mold of empires and turned the world around was America’s strategic overwatch that enabled every country to act as though it had alone won WWII. For the first time anyone could go anywhere, buy rather than steal a commodity, take it home and metabolize it into a good that could be sold. No navy was necessary. But Russia became a Mafia state and had to continue operating like an empire of old. Politically, Russia can’t allow its former colony countries to succeed as part of the American overwatch because Russian citizens will look over and wonder why they are still poor and downtrodden. Therefore, Russia has to move in and take away any success from its former colonies and pay that stolen money to its constituents to keep down the fires of revolution. If the war had gone as planned, they’d have managed to keep Russia together for a bit longer. But they are on the downhill slope of empire. They can’t stop now because if they do, the Federation will tear itself apart.
Russia has always behaved like schoolyard bully - beating up on or intimidating the weak to hide its own deep-seated insecurity and its inherent and insurmountable vacuousness.
It’s OK when The Swamp does it, though.
Russians always had the idea of a paternalistic governent. Like children who want to be lead and taught by a father figure...i.e. the czar.
Maybe they never got over it
Yeah - but the Swamp sends flowers after they’ve done it.
Every country that can see the opening wants imperial ambitions. And that includes the United States. We have approximately 750 military bases overseas. That seems kinda imperialistic to me.
Of course it can be argued that those bases are there for the common good. Pretty much the same thing Imperial Britain said way back when.
Muskovy is still in essence a central Asian culture, bequeathed on the Slaves by the Mongol invasion in the 11thu century, which didn't end until about 1480. Do not try to think of them as an enlightened European nation. Best exposition of their mindset is here, from a Finnish intelligence colonel, circa 2018.
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
excellent comments on this thread
putin is an evil man. he is not Christian in any real sense. he is a murderer and a monster
Obviously, this description could never be applied to the United States of America.
The US of A never beats up weaker nations, and we clearly are a display of ethics and morality to the rest of the world.
Which is reflected by the tremendous number of new recruits for the all volunteer military. Thru the roof.
List the nations we have "beat up" and annexed after WW2. Article is "Can Russia Ever Learn To Live Without Its Imperial Ambitions?"
Spare me your false moral equivalence arguments. That tired trope died out when the Soviet Union and the American Communist movement imploded in the 1990s. It was a ploy used by the Far Left and has no place here on FR.
It isn’t Russia that’s spreading LGBT, Marxism, abortion, environmental extremism, and disruptive mass migration throughout the globe. NATO, the woke Pope, Soros, and the EU are the bigger threats by far.
So now it's "annexed"; your shifting of the goal posts is noted. (But I won't bring up Hawaii, because that was early in the 20th century.)
Just look at our hyper-aggressive policy in the Middle East for the past 30 or so years, and tell me we aren't beating up weaker nations.
We're currently in Syria on our own invitation (because, "'Murica!", or some other similar drivel that seems to propel our use of military force) and our CIA supported the coup in Ukraine that started the conflict between that country and Russia.
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