Interesting article that talks about the similarities between now and 1938, and the sort of lessons we can learn from history.

    • Diva (she/her)
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      -416 months ago

      Russia was famously invaded multiple times by the same sorts of people they’re fighting now.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        276 months ago

        Russia has been famously invaded by Ukraine, what?

        • Diva (she/her)
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          -336 months ago

          You are really good at reading between the lines, but I’m referring to the wide array of foreign mercenaries mostly.

          • @Blue_Morpho
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            266 months ago

            None of those foreign mercenaries have invaded Russia. They are inside the borders of Ukraine defending Ukraine from invasion.

            • Diva (she/her)
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              -196 months ago

              I’m not even the native english speaker here, but the line I responded with originally was:

              Russia was famously invaded multiple times by the same sorts of people they’re fighting now.

              there are French, German, UK, US and a wide array of european mercenaries there, all of those countries have had a part in invading Russia in the past, some of them multiple times.

              The the original assertion that russia has never stopped invading places - I pointed out that it’s been invaded repeatedly (US/UK/French expeditions during the civil war, Barbarossa, Napoleon to name a few) - which doesn’t really line up with that image of an unstoppable invader.

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                You have to go back over 200 years to get France invading Russia. Russia invaded Paris in 1813. Everyone invaded everyone in the 1800’s. Russia was invading all its neighbors in the 1800’s.

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia

                The US/UK supporting the Russian Czar during the Civil War isn’t an invasion.

                • Diva (she/her)
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                  -86 months ago

                  The US/UK supporting the Russian Czar during the Civil War isn’t an invasion.

                  Yeah just like how this is special military operation!

                  • @Blue_Morpho
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                    16 months ago

                    There is no civil war in Ukraine and Putin recognizes Zelensky as the legitimate head of state. So not the same at all.