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| Russia Reconquista |
| 2022-07-11 |
| [AT] In Russian historiography, probably since the time of the historian Nikolai Karamzin, there is the term "gathering of the Russian land" or "gathering of the Russian lands. In the 19th century, this term was used to describe the process of reintegration, including through conquest, of the fragmented Russian principalities around different political centers that began in the 14th century. On June 9, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the policies of Russian Emperor Peter the Great, who was engaged in "the return of the Russian lands." After Putin came to power, the tendency has crystallized to consider the Russian Federation the heir to two states: the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This perspective led to the legitimization of the "gathering of lands." The lands held by the two predecessors of the Russian Federation include Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltics, Finland, Poland, Alaska, Ukraine, and Belorussia |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #12 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war. Except the USA hadn't been an independent nation before the Revolution. And, again, it didn't start with columns of French soldiers marching into the colonies claiming they were "liberating" us. Russia invaded the Ukraine. The war there is an invasion. Sovereign nation A was invaded by sovereign nation B. That's not a civil war. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-07-11 16:37 |
| #11 ,e.#10 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war. Ukraine has it's own nationalism and will be free of the Russians. Little known fact apparently, America had a foreign power fighting with us during the revolutionary war (France, there were others too!) |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-11 12:40 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-07-11 10:24 |
| #9 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war. Ukraine has it's own nationalism and will be free of the Russians. They have had for centuries now, Stalin damn near starved them to death to bring them to their knees. God Bless Ukraine, I pray they win this war and that justice is done to Russians for being this cruel and brutal in an unprovoked war. |
| Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-07-11 10:22 |
| #8 The war in Ukraine is a civil war... It's a rare civil war that starts with multiple lines of invasion from a foreign nation made up solely of foreign troops. Perhaps the first of its kind. (And why would people who object to Ukrainian kleptocracy opt for Russian kleptocracy?) |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-07-11 09:49 |
| #7 Before the Sudetenland there was Italia Irredenta! |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-07-11 09:23 |
| #6 But what about the children? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-07-11 08:41 |
| #5 That and the pro-German Sudetenland territory defines the totality of Germany's interests. Been there, seen it, done it. Nothing changes. Man will remain hierarchical, tribal and territorial. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-11 08:40 |
| #4 Typical Russophobic bullshit from a Russia-hating neo-conservative Jewish emigre. No one is looking to restore the Soviet Empire. The war in Ukraine is a civil war that is focused on Crimea and the base at Sevastopol: that base belongs to Russia, and Crinea's residents have made it clear that they wish to be part of Russia. That and the pro-Russian Donbas territory defines the totality of Russia's interests. Not Finland or Poland. Not western Ukraine. Just the strategic regions of Crimea and the southeastern adjoining regions whose residents want no part of the kleptocratic shithole that us Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Joling9750 2022-07-11 08:05 |
| #3 It seems that Russia is doing pointless things to distract its own citizens from its own problems. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-11 06:41 |
| #2 They do not, magpie. From the CIA World Factbook’s Russia page: Median age total: 40.3 years male: 37.5 years female: 43.2 years (2020 est.) country comparison to the world: 52 Population growth rate -0.22% (2022 est.) country comparison to the world: 213 Birth rate 9.45 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) country comparison to the world: 194 Death rate 13.36 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) country comparison to the world: 7 Total fertility rate 1.6 children born/woman (2022 est.) country comparison to the world: 184 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-07-11 01:27 |
| #1 I wonder if they have the demographics, or rather the positive population growth, to make this a practical goal? How do you convince the 'other Slavs' that they secretly have always been Russian? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-07-11 00:47 |