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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: guest78
Date: November 28, 2022, 1:52 pm
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'Russia is a neo-imperialist state' undefeated they will attack
again | Chip Chapman
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4b91sY_GGQ
Decolonize Russia
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> To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what
empire it still retains.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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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Entire article:
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/russia-putin-colonization-ukraine-chechnya/639428/
I would like to see the full dismantling of Russia also, as I'm
sure many more would like to see it now too.
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 24, 2023, 6:02 pm
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For reference:
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Re: Duginism
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: May 23, 2024, 10:16 pm
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Russia is part of Western Civilization, including during their
reign of Communism
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> 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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Source :
Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age by Ricardo Duchesne page 103
-104
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 9, 2024, 7:06 pm
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Re: Duginism
DIR By: rp
Date: March 10, 2025, 8:53 pm
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HTML https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/vladimir-putins-anti-colonial-posturing-should-not-fool-the-global-south/
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 10, 2025, 9:38 pm
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> Vladimir Putin has sought to promote Russia as the leader of a
global anti-colonial movement. This cynical move echoes earlier
Soviet propaganda positioning the USSR as an enemy of Western
imperialism. Crucially, it also whitewashes Russia’s long
history of colonial expansion
> ...
> At a September 2023 forum in Vladivostok, Putin stated that
Russia had “never been a colonizer anywhere.” One month later,
he told an international audience at the annual Valdai
Discussion Club that “the era of colonial rule” was long over,
before accusing the West of robbing the entire planet. “The
history of the West is essentially a chronicle of endless
expansion,” Putin declared without a hint of irony, despite
ruling over what is by far the world’s largest country thanks to
centuries of relentless imperial expansion.
>
> Anybody with a basic knowledge of Russian history will
recognize the absurdity of Putin’s efforts to portray his
country as an ideological opponent of imperialism. Modern Russia
includes vast territories conquered from the fifteenth century
onward. During the Tsarist era, imperial Russia swallowed up
numerous non-Russian nations and incorporated much of the
northern Eurasian landmass, eventually reaching the Pacific
Ocean.
>
> Expansion into Siberia and the Caucasus provided generations
of Russian rulers with access to valuable resources including
oil, gas, gold, diamonds, timber, and much more. These natural
treasures have been a primary source of Russia’s wealth for
hundreds of years, representing a textbook example of colonial
exploitation.
>
> While the Russian imperial elite has enriched itself, the
non-Russian peoples of the empire have received very little in
exchange for the plunder of their natural resources. Indeed,
these non-Russian regions remain among the poorest and most
deprived areas of today’s Russian Federation. Putin has
exploited this marginalization, recruiting disproportionately
large numbers of soldiers from these regions for his invasion of
Ukraine.
> ...
> Surprisingly, the reluctance of modern Russia to confront the
country’s imperial past has been mirrored by many Western
academics and commentators, who have continued to overlook the
issue of Russian colonialism despite the troubling imperialistic
instincts of the Putin regime.
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 24, 2025, 7:40 pm
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Woke comment:
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> 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.
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> Li freely "gave" the upper half of Manchuria to Russia
thinking they could stop Japan's ambition in mainland Asia.
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Short version: Li was a Eurocentrist. ::)
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: rp
Date: October 23, 2025, 7:27 pm
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Peter, Catherine, Paul, and Alexander, all these Russian tsars
and tsarinas were eager to invade India and make us their
subjects. But our Paj33t population has been brainwashed to
believe that Russia is a friend, an exception to the Western
European colonialists.
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Re: China and United States Relations
DIR By: PotatoChip
Date: November 23, 2025, 1:12 pm
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How Stalin crippled China’s post-war recovery – Sarah Paine
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> Full episode: • Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged
China's...
>
> 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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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGSPIaIJWlo
Comments:
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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.
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> Lol at Sarah Paine referencing Young Frankenstein
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> With "liberators" like Russia....
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> Russia being dishonourable and aggressive nation? shocker !
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 28, 2025, 12:30 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnxtyoOl3TM
Woke comments:
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> Ohhh but they will, and china will will take the manchuria to,
just let this Ukrain war drag out a little more.
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> All the Kuril Islands and the entire Sakhalin Island
(Karifuto) are part of the Japanese archipelago.
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> Shakalin, Kuril islands, Kamchatka should belong to Japan.
Nothing for Russia.
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> Japan should just TAKE those islands now.
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> All the Japanese have to do is to go and take back the Islands
from Russia how hard could that be
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> there's a way to get it back, if the current russian
federation break up and i believe the federation is on a path of
fragmentation. As for outer manchuria, is possible china may get
it back
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