An Empire “Without” Borders and Its “Just” Peace

Russia has never attacked anyone. It is merely a strange coincidence that over the past 107 years, it has participated in dozens of wars, annexations, occupations, and armed conflicts. The Soviet-Ukrainian War, aggression against Poland, the annexation of the Baltic states, the invasion of Afghanistan, wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—none of these, of course, indicate aggression. These were "liberation missions," "brotherly assistance," or "special operations."

Notably, even Finland, China, and Mongolia have had the opportunity to experience the "peacefulness" of Russian policy. The suppression of uprisings in Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—just "friendly gestures." The Korean War, intervention in Syria, hybrid aggression in various corners of the world—these are not acts of aggression, but purely "protection of the needy"!

"Russia has no borders; they end where the Russian language ends," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov once declared. And indeed, wars, invasions, and occupations are not aggression—they are simply a way to expand the "Russian world" to wherever it has "ended." After all, "Russia wants only peace"—preferably the kind where only Russians and Russian-controlled puppet states exist.

OP: I will never stop repeating that negotiations with Russians are impossible. They do not understand how it works, what agreements are worth, or what peace even means.