Posted on 07/03/2022 3:01:43 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
This has been posted before (if not this exact source, then another one). It is well worth posting it again, however, because the pro-Russians here on FR seem to glide right over Russia’s history of aggression. If they do comment on it at all, it is always with the moral equivalence fallacy.
Nothing to do with imperialism, only money. Oil money.
Let’s not omit the Sino-Ruso spats along the Amur river in 1929 & again in 1969
The Chechen wars were justified to regular Russians by painting the Chechens as islamic extremists.
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I’d have to agree as the Chechens brought us the Boston Marathon Bombers. Interestingly, the Russians warned use U.S. ahead of the bombing, but Obama’s FBI wasn’t interested.
Last I heard that family and the Black Widow were still lose in this country.
Last I heard that family and the Black Widow were still lose in this country.
Propaganda, now that is something Ukraine knows about.
Strangely enough I think there is some truth to this in Ukraine. I believe that a trigger there was the changes in the government policy in Ukraine where to get the higher level jobs in Ukraine you had to be fluent in Ukrainian, whereas it used to be that all official business was conducted in Russian.
SECOND CHECHEN WAR (1999 — 2009). The second phase of the Chechen war, the “Empire strikes back” scenario, where Russia took revenge for its previous defeat. These two wars became a brutal “school” for Russian artillery officers and pilots on how to bomb cities into submission via mass killing of civilians. This experience would later be used in Syria and Ukraine to horrifying effect.
Islamic terrorists and Chechen separatists crossed into the Russian republic of Dagestan with the explicit goal of turning it into another Islamic republic. That was the trigger for Russia's retaliation against Chechnya the second time around.
It would be akin to saying that the United States invaded Afghanistan without mentioning the 9/11 terrorist attacks as the casus belli.
it seems that the air held by Mssr. Putin as PyotrBolshoi, is turning out to be Ivan the Terrible.
a bit Napoleonic, maybe??
Russians are not going to change—they may not be Communists anymore but that doesn’t mean they have changed into nice peaceful creatures. They are what they are. The Marxist hammer has been replaced by Neo-Tsarism and a cause to bring the world to Russian style Christian Orthodoxly.
The Cossacks: An (even longer) History of Blood, Terror, Betrayal and ButtHurt.
Have a great 4th!
I will & hope with your medication you will feel better tomorrow. :)
EXACTLY CORRECT!
Ukraine has been at the receiving end of Russian Propaganda since the Fall of the U.S.S.R!
President Ronald Reagan - “Evil Empire” Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0x-Egc6oA
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