it took you guys thirty years to figure that out? Read some correspondence between Voltaire and Catherine the Great to understand that was the case from the beginnings of Enlightenment.
People are dumb scum and a tiny super-rich (super-privileged) should decide on everything. It was always the same - the entire concept of democracy is deeply abhorrent to them.
Apparently the regieme went in and meddled with a democratically elected PRO- RUSSIAN government
Ah yes, the corticosteroids prescribed to my daughter when she had a diaper rash made her so ripped that she invaded Ukraine too. I fully understand.
There are some steroids (not AAS) that give you something known as âmoon faceâ but this is blatantly apparent, not something as subtle as what this bullshit alludes to.
P.S Vlad do be looking ripped tho (sarcasm)
EDIT: I agree with you, I was just taking a moment to rag on the article. Didnât want it to come across as if I was being hostile towards you =)
The Queen of England be punching the air right now if this entitlement was enabled everywhere
Unless youâre Alex Navalny and you ran for âpresidentâ against Putin
Wasnât Kievan Rus the predecessor of Russia going back 7-800 years?
Longer than that, more like 9th century. Kievan Rus was founded by the Rurik dynasty, who were Scandinavian traders and explorers.
Vikings, in other words.
Ukraine rightfully belongs to the King of Sweden.
Sheâs actually the Queen of the United Kingdom mate
I would say that this comment is pedantic, but Iâm also the weird person who insists that ppl say âSoviet Unionâ or âMoscowâ instead of âRussiaâ when refering to Russia between 1921 and 1991
(unless theyâre refering to something that literally occured within the borders of Russia)
My friend (that one) calls me out for that. BUT I point out that he is also one of the most nitpicky ppl I know
Incoming ignorant post
Most americans donât know/care about the differences between britain, england, or the united kingdom⊠I quite seriously use the terms interchangably because they are all the same to me.
So being queen of the UK seems to fit IMO, but this is what I was getting at
I think âBritainâ and âUKâ are interchangable, like âSoviet Unionâ vs âUSSRâ
âEnglandâ is like saying âRussiaâ when you mean âUSSRâ, unless you literally mean the subsection of the island that is England
It really boils down to why would I believe the media now, after all their lies. Lie after lie, after lie. I am not even sure who the good guys are, if there are any. I know Putin is one of the bad guys. But our inability at the slightest attempt at dĂ©tente, no negotiation? IT makes me really question the westâs motives here. Nothing was negotiable, really? I am supposed to believe that? Verifiable, 100% provable lies.
Europe was so lazy and unconcerned. It was almost like they didnât believe this was possible. And still they look to us. Well, Europe needs to get off their ass and deal with their own back yard.
I like the sanctions thing. âWe sanctioned the shit out russia! We crippled them!â , except the oil, we left that alone, cause God forbid we drill our own oil because saving the planet means oil has to come out of Russian ground, not US ground. Our leaders are asshats. They have no idea what they are doing. They thought focusing on diversity was the best idea and competence at the jobs are incidental, well welcome to war. Somebody was going to test our resolve. Especially after Afghanistan. If I were China or Russia, I stood up and took notice of that. And if I want something, I am going to take it while this administration is in power. 'Cause we look like the Keystone Cops. Psaki says one thing, on the other side of the building the State Dept. says the exact opposite.
I mean think about it. The âghostâ man thing shooting down a bunch of Russian Migs? Thatâs WW1 reporting. The videos of rockets being shot, from a video game, for crying out loud. The Ukrainians may be fighting valiantly, but they are losing and losing badly. Ukraine will fall, itâs not a matter of if, but when.
EeehâŠMoscow was one the very few towns that wasnât razed during the Mongol invasion (Mongols didnât want to bother with a detour during a massive blizzard and Muscovites were willing to hand over all their money) and simply co opted the name of a more successful monarchy down south whose extreme northern part they once were. It was a PR move at the time.
No, because the current King of Sweden is a descendant of a semi-literate French revolutionary madman who was banging Napoleonâs sister.
Actually the USSR from 1922 onwards was remodeled after the old Tsarist Empire. Thatâs why so much hatred for Lenin amoung the current Russian elite (listen to Putinâs speech declaring war)
I find these two to be far more different than england vs UK, but thatâs only because Iâm somewhat educated on the USSR. Still, I agree that most people use them interchangably
My Russian history prof (for a class focused on the USSR) always got very annoyed when the students said âRussiaâ.
This happened quite a bit since most of the students were taking the class as a âfunâ or gen ed
Modern education folks! Narrative over facts.
âDoes the US not bank roll Israelâs modern day genocide and ethnic cleansing?â
No. Thatâs plain stupid. Such an accusation requires proof. And there is none. Genocide, lol. Thatâs China, dude. If Israel wanted to genocide the Palestinians, they would have done it by now. Itâs not like Hamas hasnât given Israel plenty of reason to go in and clean house once and for all.
Only one side even wantâs genocide and that would be the Palestinians. They are the ones who require the death of all Jews and the destruction of Israel in their charter. Not the other way around.
How is it pedantic?
The tax money I gladly pay funds her lifestyle. Sheâs my Queen too
I was going by some google fu showing Slavs mingling with Norsemen around 700AD. Being an outpost, wouldnât that be predecessors, more or less founders of pre empire Russia?
Confess to knowing zero of the history of the part of the world. Go USA!
It was something of a hodgepodge of Slavic, Baltic and Finnish tribal people. Details are murky because those backwards and shifty Eastern Europeans didnât bother to develop a system of writing to tell us what they were up to in the first millennia.
Soviet Union is short for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Or as the Russians used CCCP.
What do you want to know? I am one of those slavs. I am the product of escapeeâs from the communist bloc.
