A Perspective on Ukraine
lcamtuf.substack.com
A Perspective on Ukraine
1–10 of 24 posts
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#2[flagged]
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#3> In contrast to Nazi Germany, the days of the Soviet Union are not a point of national shame; former communist dignitaries are not banished from public life, streets and entire towns still bearing their names. Nostalgia coupled with bitterness continues to define Russian politics.
Actually, Nazi Germany was filled with nostalgia coupled with bitterness over the treaty of Versailles. They felt hard done by in WW1, and wanted to reclaim their rightful place as rulers of Europe. And of course xenophobia, genocide and atrocities come along for the ride when you put your trust in a strongman who goes to imperialist war.
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#4> In contrast to Nazi Germany, the days of the Soviet Union are not a point of national shame; former communist dignitaries are not banished from public life, streets and entire towns still bearing their names. Nostalgia coupled with bitterness continues to define Russian politics. Actually, Nazi Germany was filled with nostalgia coupled with bitterness over the treaty of Versailles. They felt hard done by in WW1, an…
Poorly worded, I suspect. I think the comparison is how modern Germany treats the nazi part of their past to how modern Russia treats the Soviet part of their past.
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#5> In contrast to Nazi Germany, the days of the Soviet Union are not a point of national shame; former communist dignitaries are not banished from public life, streets and entire towns still bearing their names. Nostalgia coupled with bitterness continues to define Russian politics. Actually, Nazi Germany was filled with nostalgia coupled with bitterness over the treaty of Versailles. They felt hard done by in WW1, an…
Poorly worded, I suspect. I think the comparison is how modern Germany treats the nazi part of their past to how modern Russia treats the Soviet part of their past.
What I mean is: Russia today is more akin to Germany in the 1930s, bitter over their past failures and humiliation at the hands of allied states a decade or so earlier, and eager to get back to conquest to show the world how great and powerful they are.
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#6[flagged]
>>Russia’s expansionist policy
> Citation requested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russi...
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#7[flagged]
>please refer us to official state policies which support these suppositions.
Wasn't PNAC a non-government think-tank?
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#8[flagged]
Often the dark actions are wrapped in good words. So we either read "we Russians stand for the world peace" and understand we need to prepare for war, or don't read nothing at all, except intelligence reports about increasing military forces on the borders.
> Otherwise, this is just agitprop.
On whos side?
Will anybody honestly argue about Russia's expansionist policy? After events which can be interpreted as a solid confirmation of that? Will anybody honestly willing to twist words and images as much as to question this? If so, what's the dictionary which can be agreed upon, so the dialog is possible at all, at the level of "citation requested"? Where's the evidence that if a picture is presented which describes the events the discussion won't move to the critique of the description, not to the conclusions the picture was meant to illustrate?
Or, in other words, who's doing agitprop here?
Re: A Perspective on Ukraine
#9[flagged]
The Kremlin and Putin himself have repeatedly denied Ukraine's right to exist:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine...
https://time.com/6150046/ukraine-statehood-russia-history-pu...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/ukraine-war-natio...