At last, someone publicly recognized a replica of Golden Horde in Muscovy-‘Russia’
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They’ve been butthurt since the Golden Horde.
It doesn’t help that 99% of ruzian “opposition” is feeding the West with “putin’s war” narrative. It’s not putin’s war, it’s the ruzians’ war.
It is not a war of the past to the brave Ukrainians fighting in it. It is a war of people, workers, teachers, nurses, lawyers, cops, every aspect of modern society against an aggressor. We do not live in Mongol-Cossack times. Russia is killing modern European Ukraine. Stop this historicity shit. Unhelpful.
TL; DR
>Russia’s belligerence springs from a deep void of insecurity, impossible to fill. … This is not an innate trait, but a twisted cycle of projection, inflicting violence onto others as a means of coping with and suppressing the memory of the violence once suffered.
But it’s a great piece and well worth reading in its entirety.
It’s multiple things, not just one. Mostly because they wanted those oil fields. that like east of Ukraine. Militarily gives them some strategic advantage too. It’s all a bunch of good reasons rolled into one big action. Putin wants the old USSR back among other things. He’s the one in control with yes men.
>Russia is not a country forged by shared values, common beliefs or a unifying purpose — it is an empire assembled by force, bound together by lies and sustained through the theft of other peoples’ art, culture and history.
Someone has been reading our posts.
Greed. May they drown in.
Well worth the read.
Its all bcoz of Putin’s Delusional Views.
Reviving the USSR and the Russia against the West
Putin’s mind lives in the ColdWar Era.
Totally agree with this article.
The complete, undiluted truth about the darkness in the Russian soul.
as for me personally what i’ve read and seen all from ukrainians i can’t help feeling there is a big piece of the puzzle also involving about the “energy”.
Russia had an absolute monopoloy on Europe’s energy supply , and seeing that Ukraine with massive resources on oil and gas and slowly walking the direction of West was unacceptable as it would cause an enormous loss for Russia.
(starting already in 2008 with the NATO top in 2008 they already implied it would be a red line for them so they did warn for it)
For me i feel that Putin must have thought it is now or never cause if he waited longer he’d probably lost Ukraine already. To be fair, i’m afraid that Russia did succeed in this mission cause the majority of those resources are in the east of Ukraine, he has the gas & the oil .. which Europe desperately needs.
Another war of just 3 letters ? O I L … it could be in my eyes.
Russia wants complete control of the Black Sea to have a secondary staging point for its submarine fleet.
IDK. If I read that right the ‘reason’ is that Ruzzia under Putin is a colonizing force? I think Putin, arguably the richest man in the world (or was), wanted to be even richer and Ukraine not only had the metal works in Mariupol with its deep sea port, but is also a huge breadbasket, and a source of critical minerals and fossil fuels.
What I think is Putin terribly misjudged how dedicated and how fierce the AFU is and how great a leader Zelensky would become. He honestly thought Kyiv would topple in a day. I don’t think Putin has the mind set of a conquering Russian Tsar, rather he’s just greedy and as a psychopath doesn’t give a F about anyone but his self.
Great read
The real reason? Putin and his oligarchs have bled Russia dry. The thing about dictatorships – they are terrible managers of the economy. They are much better at *rape and pillage*…
That means they need to forever expand as the greedy benefactors eat up more and more of the land and resources of each successive country they absorb.
The people live poorly under those regimes, but are kept somewhat sated through a mixture of controlled propaganda, and gladiatorial style blame and punishment sessions aimed at the minorities scape goated by the regime for everything the regime broke.
However, Ukraine, their next door neighbor, and free Democratic country, has been growing their economy steadily. They would have eclipsed the Russian economy in likely less than a decade.
Russia CANNOT sell their story to their people about the reasons for their people’s plight, while Ukraine sits there, growing and prospering, while also having the same “problems” – think minorities, gay people, etc.
PLUS, Russia HAS to expand – like Scar in the Lion King – because they have squeezed their country dry…
Everything else, NATO, Russian language speakers, proliferation… It’s all BS to hide the real reason, which is weakness bordering on collapse.
>Unlike Spain, Portugal or Belgium, which relinquished colonies and transitioned into post-imperial nations, Russia viewed its losses as temporary setbacks. Even the Soviet Union’s collapse after the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan didn’t extinguish this imperial ethos.
The USSR’s disintegration has a few differences from the Western European loss of colonies that might explain this.
First off, the USSR disestablished its own ruling party/ideology at the same time that it, mostly bloodlessly, broke up. Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, the UK–all of them fought (and lost) bloody wars where they learned that their ability to impose their will on their subjects was limited (most of the time, this involved the metropole getting invaded by somebody else, leaving them unable to project power).
This left Moskal chauvinists with the ability to pretend like Ukraine’s (and everyone else’s) declaration of independence was a temporary setback that would go away just as soon as the “evil other” ideology (communism) was gone. And I think *that* is also what’s confused the Western understanding of Ukraine–the Cold War was a struggle against Communism, not against Moskal imperialism for them, so a lot of Westerners *still* don’t quite understand that the rot was there before 1917 and was there after 1991. It doesn’t help, unfortunately, that legions of White emigres who came to the West after 1917 engaged in a relentless project of whitewashing the Tsarist regime to make the Soviets look even worse by comparison.
In other words, the West will not understand the nature of Moskal imperialism until they acknowledge that the shithole-country behavior *didn’t start or end with communism*, and the Moskals won’t respect the independence of their neighbors until they lose a war against them.
I think the true underlying motives are pride, arrogance, a lust for power, and a hatred of freedom and justice.
Adapted from The Hill: credit Andrew Chakhoyan, as of 01.28.2025
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Since the beginning of the Crimean takeover in 2014, a phrase that never gets tired is ‘no such thing’. This haunting generic can be adapted, manipulated and ultimately translates to danger. They [Ukrainians] are fighting a boy from the dvor defending nothing but his sweat.
Of course, it sounds both comically and tragically grotesque, like something from a Grimm’s fairytale. Yet it [the FSI] still exists in some places as if it never happened, when of course those very places are exactly the places where the escalation should have been addressed. For many people inside the Russian Federation at least, it might as well not have.
Russian Federation forces — disguised as ’embedded dedovschinas’ — swept through the eastern provinces of Ukraine to mythically create four new Republics in a manner that Channel ORT would have been proud of. State television has now largely passed its baton of influence to the fabrication multipliers of the internet (or at least, the www). Yet the brazenness needed to engage the narrative for viral spread wasn’t limited to propaganda by the PMC. It demonstrated how the state, and oligarchical-level Russians (all six or seven of them) remain fundamentally enabled by exporting the invasive identity of rulers over ruled that are unable to escape.
The Federation is not a state forged by a long history of values, a secular belief system, or a separation of powers. Its purpose is to defend the post-Soviet empire’s core remains, maintained through organized crime and bound together by force of arms, weaponry and an elite international hierarchy of minerals, interests and lack of ownership. The theater of criminality that extends into art, culture and history is a different take on conquest and cultural appropriation yet nothing new in the human experience. Nonetheless, the blatant attempt to erase the nascent Ukraine as an entity and as a peoples is hardly excusable.
The FSI (Full-Scale Invasion) was rationalized in a pro-nationalist essay declaring a new culture for the national near-abroad. The ‘one people’ (eine volk) claim had echoes of historical ghosts past. In defense of kinship, it was akin to a greater threat: Ukrainians must submit or die. And in submission, the requirement would be to null and void any gains obtained since 1989-1991, including independence. Enabling the duty of its soldat to invade, kill, rape and torture with impunity took only the greenlit use of a pen.
The call to history throws back to imperialism. The old European powers that developed global power, influence, friendships and enemies did not survive their acquisitions as twenty-first century status symbols. The Federation, on the other hand, seems ready to reboot after the Soviet thaw. The Mongol hordes that spread westwards from the Asian plains and steppe didn’t get to take fortress Europe in the same way that got them as far as they did. St. Andrew had identified a proto-Ukrainian entity at the end of the tenth century and regardless of who actually acquired the dynastic crown to rule, the information warfare of the time was settled in genetics, i.e. blood.
Trade, coercion, control, space, the laws of no law and a Siberian Dream of Russian Roulette: Moscow hasn’t stopped. From the troops born in 1990s Chechnya to the counter-Mujahadeen fighters of the 1980s, the framing of discourse is centered upon the actions of deliberate, purposeful, intended and targeted violence.
Many in the politics prefer not to think that Putin is the problem. He is: the poster boy of the little green men; the antihero of the FSI. A spy, tick, a gentleman, tick, the kind of media hero that Russia’s historical philosophers can work with, a streetkid that knows both his rats and eggs, dead and living, the housewives favorite. To put it less directly, the bottom card of citadel Kremlin’s special house deck is both exception and rule.
RT state propaganda, 820,000 casualties and counting, a societal sacrifice, and an 11,800 loan from north of the thirty-eighth parallel – even if the party elite are prepared to put a sock where the money is then it’s still evident that their government overseers care even less. A land game, tick, a minerals game, tick, a training game, tick, a military game, tick, a political game, tick. It is indeed Putin’s War: a neverending military operational set of bloodlust and brinksmanship.
Obviously, the devil can be found in both detail and retail. The sale of armaments to Federation forces and any associative or aligned contractors is in contrast to a Ukraine that is seeking to divest its defense network from the coercive inheritance of Soviet-based legacy platforms and their successors. Russia’s belligerence springs in part from a deep panic of losing that security, impossible to get back if relinquished. At home, its leaders undoubtedly include АЭРОФЛОТ [aeroflot] yet levying a 1.458 tariff on every manufacturing import into Ukraine wouldn’t make sense and isn’t even viable, let alone realistic. Especially not now that violence has been engaged.
As the snake twists in 2025, Ukraine’s fight is a battle for independence – freedom from the Russian yoke. Narratives of international criminality, restitution, reparations and acreage calculations could play their part yet none of those get to the essence of the zerosum engagement that the Kremlin initiated – use of Ukraine to incite the EU. If Ukraine’s territorial integrity is not secured then the Federation will not accept defeat. And, given that the Federation President is on a one-way ticket that doesn’t seem to want to stop at a million dead, the aura of his sum-total talismanic magic power is all-in on Red Square. Or somewhere close.
> Russia’s belligerence springs from a deep void of insecurity, impossible to fill. At home, its people are resigned to oppression, apathetic, always victims. Yet when they turn their gaze outward, the inhabitants of the Russian Federation assume the mindset of colonizers, seeking meaning in the subjugation of neighbors.
I am worried that this will soon describe the USA.
“McGlynn observes that Putin doesn’t impose foreign policy views on Russians; he gives voice to what many of them already believe. The narrative from Moscow resonates not because it is forced but because it spares its audience from acknowledging its own complicity in an unjust, sadistic and criminal war.”
“To this day, the Kremlin crushes dissent, clinging to the past because it can offer no future.”
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At last, someone publicly recognized a replica of Golden Horde in Muscovy-‘Russia’
[deleted]
They’ve been butthurt since the Golden Horde.
It doesn’t help that 99% of ruzian “opposition” is feeding the West with “putin’s war” narrative. It’s not putin’s war, it’s the ruzians’ war.
It is not a war of the past to the brave Ukrainians fighting in it. It is a war of people, workers, teachers, nurses, lawyers, cops, every aspect of modern society against an aggressor. We do not live in Mongol-Cossack times. Russia is killing modern European Ukraine. Stop this historicity shit. Unhelpful.
TL; DR
>Russia’s belligerence springs from a deep void of insecurity, impossible to fill. … This is not an innate trait, but a twisted cycle of projection, inflicting violence onto others as a means of coping with and suppressing the memory of the violence once suffered.
But it’s a great piece and well worth reading in its entirety.
It’s multiple things, not just one. Mostly because they wanted those oil fields. that like east of Ukraine. Militarily gives them some strategic advantage too. It’s all a bunch of good reasons rolled into one big action. Putin wants the old USSR back among other things. He’s the one in control with yes men.
>Russia is not a country forged by shared values, common beliefs or a unifying purpose — it is an empire assembled by force, bound together by lies and sustained through the theft of other peoples’ art, culture and history.
Someone has been reading our posts.
Greed. May they drown in.
Well worth the read.
Its all bcoz of Putin’s Delusional Views.
Reviving the USSR and the Russia against the West
Putin’s mind lives in the ColdWar Era.
Totally agree with this article.
The complete, undiluted truth about the darkness in the Russian soul.
as for me personally what i’ve read and seen all from ukrainians i can’t help feeling there is a big piece of the puzzle also involving about the “energy”.
Russia had an absolute monopoloy on Europe’s energy supply , and seeing that Ukraine with massive resources on oil and gas and slowly walking the direction of West was unacceptable as it would cause an enormous loss for Russia.
(starting already in 2008 with the NATO top in 2008 they already implied it would be a red line for them so they did warn for it)
For me i feel that Putin must have thought it is now or never cause if he waited longer he’d probably lost Ukraine already. To be fair, i’m afraid that Russia did succeed in this mission cause the majority of those resources are in the east of Ukraine, he has the gas & the oil .. which Europe desperately needs.
Another war of just 3 letters ? O I L … it could be in my eyes.
Russia wants complete control of the Black Sea to have a secondary staging point for its submarine fleet.
IDK. If I read that right the ‘reason’ is that Ruzzia under Putin is a colonizing force? I think Putin, arguably the richest man in the world (or was), wanted to be even richer and Ukraine not only had the metal works in Mariupol with its deep sea port, but is also a huge breadbasket, and a source of critical minerals and fossil fuels.
What I think is Putin terribly misjudged how dedicated and how fierce the AFU is and how great a leader Zelensky would become. He honestly thought Kyiv would topple in a day. I don’t think Putin has the mind set of a conquering Russian Tsar, rather he’s just greedy and as a psychopath doesn’t give a F about anyone but his self.
Great read
The real reason? Putin and his oligarchs have bled Russia dry. The thing about dictatorships – they are terrible managers of the economy. They are much better at *rape and pillage*…
That means they need to forever expand as the greedy benefactors eat up more and more of the land and resources of each successive country they absorb.
The people live poorly under those regimes, but are kept somewhat sated through a mixture of controlled propaganda, and gladiatorial style blame and punishment sessions aimed at the minorities scape goated by the regime for everything the regime broke.
However, Ukraine, their next door neighbor, and free Democratic country, has been growing their economy steadily. They would have eclipsed the Russian economy in likely less than a decade.
Russia CANNOT sell their story to their people about the reasons for their people’s plight, while Ukraine sits there, growing and prospering, while also having the same “problems” – think minorities, gay people, etc.
PLUS, Russia HAS to expand – like Scar in the Lion King – because they have squeezed their country dry…
Everything else, NATO, Russian language speakers, proliferation… It’s all BS to hide the real reason, which is weakness bordering on collapse.
>Unlike Spain, Portugal or Belgium, which relinquished colonies and transitioned into post-imperial nations, Russia viewed its losses as temporary setbacks. Even the Soviet Union’s collapse after the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan didn’t extinguish this imperial ethos.
The USSR’s disintegration has a few differences from the Western European loss of colonies that might explain this.
First off, the USSR disestablished its own ruling party/ideology at the same time that it, mostly bloodlessly, broke up. Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, the UK–all of them fought (and lost) bloody wars where they learned that their ability to impose their will on their subjects was limited (most of the time, this involved the metropole getting invaded by somebody else, leaving them unable to project power).
This left Moskal chauvinists with the ability to pretend like Ukraine’s (and everyone else’s) declaration of independence was a temporary setback that would go away just as soon as the “evil other” ideology (communism) was gone. And I think *that* is also what’s confused the Western understanding of Ukraine–the Cold War was a struggle against Communism, not against Moskal imperialism for them, so a lot of Westerners *still* don’t quite understand that the rot was there before 1917 and was there after 1991. It doesn’t help, unfortunately, that legions of White emigres who came to the West after 1917 engaged in a relentless project of whitewashing the Tsarist regime to make the Soviets look even worse by comparison.
In other words, the West will not understand the nature of Moskal imperialism until they acknowledge that the shithole-country behavior *didn’t start or end with communism*, and the Moskals won’t respect the independence of their neighbors until they lose a war against them.
I think the true underlying motives are pride, arrogance, a lust for power, and a hatred of freedom and justice.
Adapted from The Hill: credit Andrew Chakhoyan, as of 01.28.2025
—
°•
Since the beginning of the Crimean takeover in 2014, a phrase that never gets tired is ‘no such thing’. This haunting generic can be adapted, manipulated and ultimately translates to danger. They [Ukrainians] are fighting a boy from the dvor defending nothing but his sweat.
Of course, it sounds both comically and tragically grotesque, like something from a Grimm’s fairytale. Yet it [the FSI] still exists in some places as if it never happened, when of course those very places are exactly the places where the escalation should have been addressed. For many people inside the Russian Federation at least, it might as well not have.
Russian Federation forces — disguised as ’embedded dedovschinas’ — swept through the eastern provinces of Ukraine to mythically create four new Republics in a manner that Channel ORT would have been proud of. State television has now largely passed its baton of influence to the fabrication multipliers of the internet (or at least, the www). Yet the brazenness needed to engage the narrative for viral spread wasn’t limited to propaganda by the PMC. It demonstrated how the state, and oligarchical-level Russians (all six or seven of them) remain fundamentally enabled by exporting the invasive identity of rulers over ruled that are unable to escape.
The Federation is not a state forged by a long history of values, a secular belief system, or a separation of powers. Its purpose is to defend the post-Soviet empire’s core remains, maintained through organized crime and bound together by force of arms, weaponry and an elite international hierarchy of minerals, interests and lack of ownership. The theater of criminality that extends into art, culture and history is a different take on conquest and cultural appropriation yet nothing new in the human experience. Nonetheless, the blatant attempt to erase the nascent Ukraine as an entity and as a peoples is hardly excusable.
The FSI (Full-Scale Invasion) was rationalized in a pro-nationalist essay declaring a new culture for the national near-abroad. The ‘one people’ (eine volk) claim had echoes of historical ghosts past. In defense of kinship, it was akin to a greater threat: Ukrainians must submit or die. And in submission, the requirement would be to null and void any gains obtained since 1989-1991, including independence. Enabling the duty of its soldat to invade, kill, rape and torture with impunity took only the greenlit use of a pen.
The call to history throws back to imperialism. The old European powers that developed global power, influence, friendships and enemies did not survive their acquisitions as twenty-first century status symbols. The Federation, on the other hand, seems ready to reboot after the Soviet thaw. The Mongol hordes that spread westwards from the Asian plains and steppe didn’t get to take fortress Europe in the same way that got them as far as they did. St. Andrew had identified a proto-Ukrainian entity at the end of the tenth century and regardless of who actually acquired the dynastic crown to rule, the information warfare of the time was settled in genetics, i.e. blood.
Trade, coercion, control, space, the laws of no law and a Siberian Dream of Russian Roulette: Moscow hasn’t stopped. From the troops born in 1990s Chechnya to the counter-Mujahadeen fighters of the 1980s, the framing of discourse is centered upon the actions of deliberate, purposeful, intended and targeted violence.
Many in the politics prefer not to think that Putin is the problem. He is: the poster boy of the little green men; the antihero of the FSI. A spy, tick, a gentleman, tick, the kind of media hero that Russia’s historical philosophers can work with, a streetkid that knows both his rats and eggs, dead and living, the housewives favorite. To put it less directly, the bottom card of citadel Kremlin’s special house deck is both exception and rule.
RT state propaganda, 820,000 casualties and counting, a societal sacrifice, and an 11,800 loan from north of the thirty-eighth parallel – even if the party elite are prepared to put a sock where the money is then it’s still evident that their government overseers care even less. A land game, tick, a minerals game, tick, a training game, tick, a military game, tick, a political game, tick. It is indeed Putin’s War: a neverending military operational set of bloodlust and brinksmanship.
Obviously, the devil can be found in both detail and retail. The sale of armaments to Federation forces and any associative or aligned contractors is in contrast to a Ukraine that is seeking to divest its defense network from the coercive inheritance of Soviet-based legacy platforms and their successors. Russia’s belligerence springs in part from a deep panic of losing that security, impossible to get back if relinquished. At home, its leaders undoubtedly include АЭРОФЛОТ [aeroflot] yet levying a 1.458 tariff on every manufacturing import into Ukraine wouldn’t make sense and isn’t even viable, let alone realistic. Especially not now that violence has been engaged.
As the snake twists in 2025, Ukraine’s fight is a battle for independence – freedom from the Russian yoke. Narratives of international criminality, restitution, reparations and acreage calculations could play their part yet none of those get to the essence of the zerosum engagement that the Kremlin initiated – use of Ukraine to incite the EU. If Ukraine’s territorial integrity is not secured then the Federation will not accept defeat. And, given that the Federation President is on a one-way ticket that doesn’t seem to want to stop at a million dead, the aura of his sum-total talismanic magic power is all-in on Red Square. Or somewhere close.
> Russia’s belligerence springs from a deep void of insecurity, impossible to fill. At home, its people are resigned to oppression, apathetic, always victims. Yet when they turn their gaze outward, the inhabitants of the Russian Federation assume the mindset of colonizers, seeking meaning in the subjugation of neighbors.
I am worried that this will soon describe the USA.
“McGlynn observes that Putin doesn’t impose foreign policy views on Russians; he gives voice to what many of them already believe. The narrative from Moscow resonates not because it is forced but because it spares its audience from acknowledging its own complicity in an unjust, sadistic and criminal war.”
“To this day, the Kremlin crushes dissent, clinging to the past because it can offer no future.”
Great read.
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