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'Russia is a neo-imperialist state' undefeated they will attack again | Chip Chapman


Decolonize Russia

To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what empire it still retains.

The former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski once said that without Ukraine, Russia would cease to be an empire. It’s a pithy statement, but it’s not true. Even if Vladimir Putin fails to wrest back Ukraine, his country will remain a haphazard amalgamation of regions and nations with hugely varied histories, cultures, and languages. The Kremlin will continue ruling over colonial holdings in places including Chechnya, Tatarstan, Siberia, and the Arctic.

Russia’s history is one of almost ceaseless expansion and colonization, and Russia is the last European empire that has resisted even basic decolonization efforts, such as granting subject populations autonomy and a meaningful voice in choosing the country’s leaders. And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, Russia is willing to resort to war to reconquer regions it views as its rightful possessions.

During and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Russian empire hit its modern nadir, the United States refused to safeguard the newly won independence of multiple post-Soviet states, citing misplaced concerns about humiliating Moscow. Emboldened by the West’s reluctance, Moscow began to reclaim the lands it lost. Now Russia’s revanchism—aided by our inaction and broader ignorance of the history of Russian imperialism—has revived the possibility of nuclear conflict and instigated the worst security crisis the world has seen in decades. Once Ukraine staves off Russia’s attempt to recolonize it, the West must support full freedom for Russia’s imperial subjects.

The U.S. had an opportunity to unwind the Russian empire before. In September 1991, as the Soviet Union was falling apart, President George H. W. Bush convened his National Security Council. In the lead-up to the meeting, the White House seemed unsure how to handle the splintering superpower. Some of Bush’s closest advisers even called for trying to keep the Soviet Union together.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was not one of them. “We could get an authoritarian regime [in Russia] still,” he warned during the meeting. “I am concerned that a year or so from now, if it all goes sour, how we can answer that we did not do more.” His end goal was clear: as Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates later wrote, Cheney “wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world.”

Bush demurred. Rather than accelerate the Soviet disintegration, he tried to avoid antagonizing Moscow, even as President Boris Yeltsin’s administration began pushing the anti-Ukrainian animus that Putin now embodies. For years—as Russia stabilized and eventually prospered, and as Cheney masterminded some of the most disastrous American foreign-policy decisions in recent decades—many believed that Bush had selected the better strategy. Armageddon, as one historian phrased it, was averted.

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I would like to see the full dismantling of Russia also, as I'm sure many more would like to see it now too.

Russia is part of Western Civilization, including during their reign of Communism

Philippe Nemo’s claim that Russia is not really Western because under its Orthodox Christian order it did not experience the separation of church and state, and the rise of representative institutions, is wrong on racial grounds.[71] It is wrong on high cultural grounds as well: Russia has contributed one of the greatest literary traditions to the West, starting with Alexander Pushkin, the poetry of Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolay Nekrasov, dramas of Aleksandr Ostrovsky and Anton Chekhov, and the prose of Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Ivan Goncharov. It is wrong on geopolitical grounds: Russia’s relentless geographical expansion into Siberia, beginning in the late-1500s and reaching the Pacific by 1639, is as deserving of admiration as the achievements of other well-known European explorations. Russia has been a land of numerous great explorers associated with heroic expeditions from Siberia to the Arctic into Space; it launched the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, the first human spaceflight in 1961, the first spacewalk in 1965, the first space exploration rover, on the Moon in 1970, and the first space station in 1971.[72] Guillaume Faye’s vision of a Euro-Siberia federation covering all European lands in between the Atlantic and the Pacific is a salutation to Russia’s geographical achievement and possible impending role in the struggle with the Asian world for the survival of Western civilisation.[73]

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Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age by Ricardo Duchesne page 103 -104

Woke comment:

The border could've changed even more as Russians heavily invested into Manchuria and even launched a full-scale invasion in 1900. Only after their defeat in Russo-Japanese War in 1905 they withdrew their forces.

Li freely "gave" the upper half of Manchuria to Russia thinking they could stop Japan's ambition in mainland Asia.

Short version: Li was a Eurocentrist. 

How Stalin crippled China’s post-war recovery – Sarah Paine

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In the full lecture lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down for over a century.

This lecture was particularly interesting to me because, in my opinion, the Chinese Civil War is 1 of the top 3 most important events of the 20th century. And to understand why it transpired as it did, you need to understand Stalin’s role in the whole thing.

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The soviets did the same in Eastern Europe and Germany, their entire post war infrastructure is basicly build by gulag prisoners.

Lol at Sarah Paine referencing Young Frankenstein

With "liberators" like Russia....

Russia being dishonourable and aggressive nation? shocker !

Must watch:



Contrary to the ending of the video, I still have no confidence that Eurocentrist Xi will turn on Russia. If he had any intention of doing so, he would be doing everything possible to avoid antagonizing China's neighbours to the east and south (which is exact opposite of what he is doing as we speak).

Here is a documentary detailing the systematic **** camps operated by Russian troops in Manchuria in 1945:



(Appropriately enough, the presenter is none other then Revolver Lily herself:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/media-decolonization/msg31051/#msg31051 )

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That picture of Putin and Xi does not look glacial. It looks comfortable

I agree. Paine is far too optimistic.

Would China trust Russia today ? With that history l would hope not

He is called Eurocentrist Xi for a reason.

The history of Russia is a history of constant genocides and evil doings. Such a nation must be destroyed

Exactly.

Seeing the Chinese Communist Party's anti-Japan protests is like bad comedy.

He is called Eurocentrist Xi for a reason.

“ who would want Russia, its full of Russians “
Excellent line.

Yes, but to exterminate them you have to go into Russia.

Why don't PRC strike back Russia now?

He is called Eurocentrist Xi for a reason.