Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy lecture on medieval Slavic history to the leaders of Norway and Finland during an Oct. 27 phone call, offering little mention of an immediate cease...
It’s his primary cassus belli that doesn’t include a responsibility to leave after regime change. If Ukraine is rightfully Russian then he gets a lot of fertile land and a permanent warm water port. Also he clearly considers the loss of Ukraine to be a humiliation since it had been occupied by the czars then made into a soviet republic, but is now completely independent.
In some ways this is like if the UK were to dissolve then 30 years later the English start saying that Wales was always part of England.
History-shmistory. Russia recognized Independent Ukraine in it’s 1991 borders multiple times. Lecturing Scandinavian leaders on whatever he thinks is history is histerical simply because Rurikids were, in fact, Scandinavian slave traders who ran Slavic states for hundreds of years before Muscovy was even though of.
I want to be clear here. In my in my UK example I think Wales has always been a separate entity with the right to self determination, much like Ukraine. Just because both have a long history of being a part of a more imperialist neighbor (typically conquered) doesn’t take any of that away
It’s his primary cassus belli that doesn’t include a responsibility to leave after regime change. If Ukraine is rightfully Russian then he gets a lot of fertile land and a permanent warm water port. Also he clearly considers the loss of Ukraine to be a humiliation since it had been occupied by the czars then made into a soviet republic, but is now completely independent.
In some ways this is like if the UK were to dissolve then 30 years later the English start saying that Wales was always part of England.
History-shmistory. Russia recognized Independent Ukraine in it’s 1991 borders multiple times. Lecturing Scandinavian leaders on whatever he thinks is history is histerical simply because Rurikids were, in fact, Scandinavian slave traders who ran Slavic states for hundreds of years before Muscovy was even though of.
I want to be clear here. In my in my UK example I think Wales has always been a separate entity with the right to self determination, much like Ukraine. Just because both have a long history of being a part of a more imperialist neighbor (typically conquered) doesn’t take any of that away
Cymru am byth. And while we are at it, 26+6=1.
OTOH unlike russkies, not a single time did the Brits invade Ireland after the establishment of independent Irish state