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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    -415 months ago

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

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      275 months ago

      Russia has been famously invaded by Ukraine, what?

      • Diva (she/her)
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        -335 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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          265 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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            -195 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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                -85 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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                  15 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.

                  • Diva (she/her)
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                    But the two republics are also recognized and did ask for help as well, hence the SMO- and idk what you would consider 2014-2022 in ukraine but civil war would be a fair description in my opinion.