Russian threat will endure beyond Vladimir Putin’s era, Latvian foreign minister Karis cautions. Family history has given Mr Kariņš an acute awareness of the pathologies of the modern Russian psyche
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Russian threat will endure beyond Vladimir Putin’s era, Latvian foreign minister Karis cautions. Family history has given Mr Kariņš an acute awareness of the pathologies of the modern Russian psyche
by Oddfellows_Local_151
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> “Russia right now – **and it’s a rather deep philosophy, bought into by society** – they are still an imperialistic country, viewing the world the way some European countries did maybe 100, 150 years ago,” he explains.
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> The corollary to that statement is the grim understanding that if and when Vladimir Putin leaves the stage, Russia’s imperial pretensions – currently playing out with devastating effect in Ukraine – will continue to menace Europe.
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> “From Nato’s point of view, we will have to deal with a problematic Russia, a dangerous Russia for a long time to come,” he warns. “Even after the end of this war – and all wars end eventually – **we will still have a problem in Russia which will not be related directly to the rule of Putin**.”
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>“We see no indications that there’s any movement within Russia which would produce a leader espousing enlightenment, liberal ideas,” Mr Kariņš says. “This is not in the foreseeable future at all.”
‘Putin’s war’ propaganda in the mud. What’s even better, this understanding — that the problem is Russia, not just Putin — seems to be slowly but surely creeping into Western politicians too. After all, people in the Baltics or Poland largely have always had a sound judgement, but it was nice to hear a statement along those line, if not even a bit harsher, [from Borrell](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/24/eu-foreign-policy-chief-fears-rightwing-surge-in-june-elections):
> He claimed: “Russia has never been able to become a nation. It was always an empire with the tsar, with the Soviets, and now with Putin. **It is a constant of Russia, and its political identity**, and as a result a threat to his neighbours – and particularly to us.”
It is crucial for us to internalize this: one must know one’s enemies to not mistake them for friends.
Russia suffered plenty through history, but the problem is that it wants to hand out the same suffering to other countries… as the past 100 years prove.
Russia is like the big, toxic kid in class who has a shitty life at home, and bullies everyone smaller than him in school as a result. And when the bullied kids attempt to gang up on him to protect themselves, Russia whines and plays victim.
When will the rest of the west get this? this is not putin problem, it’s a RUZZIANS problem.
хуйня на постном масле, как только медиа ресурсы уйдут в свободное плавание из рук диктатора общество изменится за пару лет, не говоря уже о том, что так называемых империалистов два с половиной маргинала
>pathologies of the modern Russian psyche
It’s really stupid to treat the entire country as one homogenous hive mind. People in cities are progressive and far from imperialistic.
The Telegraph is unaware of the pathologies present in their own British psyche but go ahead and load the headlines, chaps.
This is the wrong attitude towards Russia. We need to create a scenario where they can become our friends as partners. This does not mean ignoring reality or being naive. But treating them as our enemies, no matter what happens inside of Russia only furthers escalation and leads us to a war path
Ah, there it is: science explains how our enemies are inherently flawed and must be destroyed. Going all the way back to 1870 with this bullshit
Bro really said : “I have got an explanation for all this shit ” and came up with racism 💀💀💀
Russian here. What a disgusting take
there is no leader in Russia capable of following liberal enlightenment ideas? Yeah, no shit, because two of them got murdered, the others are in jail with decade-long sentences. The power in the country has been usurped, all independent media destroyed, elections rigged, any opposition movements repressed, TV propaganda 24/7 on main channels – but oh, it’s suddenly “Russian psyche”, in a dictator-usurped country.
Russian threat will endure until there is Russia.
Baltic states know what’s up.
P.s. Russians whining in the comments are pathetic.
Its like that in all of western society. The monkey is scared and aggressive and supports anyone that wants to kill. Maybe the reign of the monkey really is over..
Indeed, this whole idea that Putins removal would magically make Russia a more peaceful and democratic place has always been pie in the sky thinking.
Might be better to phrase it as deep cultural issues than a pathological psyche, as it seems less inherent that way, and people need to belive that change is possible for change to be possible
“~~Jeder Stoß ein Franzos,~~ Jeder schuss ein Russ”
Right. And about eighty years ago, Latvians had “acute awareness of the pathologies of the modern Jewish psyche”, which is why they supported Nazi Germany, and still celebrate those, who fought on German side in WW2. Such acute, aware people.
Lots of people in the comments seem to have strayed from the article towards simple xenophobia.
Reading some of these comments is just the same as reading some of the worst russians with only difference in “whos the bad guy”.
Exactly the same, just compare “russians are bad and always wanted everyone to suffer” vs “west is bad and always wanted to make us into slaves”.
My point is: the problem is in this simplified, populistic way of thinking and labeling people. It is the exact way to totalitarianism. By thinking this way you’re getting the closest to those you criticise.
You think the difference is knowing whos really bad? No. Because it’s quite simple to distort the “really” with lies.
I claim that the political system has to do much more with the behavior of the country, than race, nationality, mentality etc.
If Russia experiences true democracy, the country would be completely different in 10-20 years. Same is true to many other countries in the world.
But it’s much harder to do that from the inside, especially now, in the age of total digital control.
Yeah. Unless there is proper regime change, rather than just him handing over to a successor, nothing will change.
Maybe entering a proxy war with them and openly discussing the “balcanization” of their country has something to do with that?
Sadly this is why it’s fuck russia and not fuck putin