Quite. Here’s another example:
Native Americans came to America from lands that, millennia later, were conquered by Russia, therefore Native Americans (or “Indians” as the panelist in the clip calls them) are Russians. And so Russians get to appropriate their victim status. Let’s just ignore how Russians treated those indigenous peoples of Siberia who are closely related to Native Americans:
Putin and his minions invoke Russia’s ethnic and religious diversity when it suits them, for instance when they want to persuade men from ethnic minorities to join the army.
Falling upward?
Will they make this a component of their claim to Nordic countries where the Saami/Sami now live?
Here was a recent piece on a village of Evenks.
In Nupreichik’s view, joining the war in Ukraine would have several benefits. First, he says, he could get the illegal tree-cutting conviction expunged from his criminal record. The second reason is the money: he only makes 300,000 rubles (about $4,600) a year hunting sables and gathering pine nuts.
The article paints a picture of a century of forcing a radical change in lifestyle, removing access to some natural resources, forcing payment for others. That’s one indigenous group.
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon wrote a thread on Twitter back in March about Russian Imperialism regarding more than just Siberia.
Russia did not participate in the Scramble for Africa because it already had a massive, land-based empire with the resources it wanted. It had used violence to repress the myriad of ethnic groups who lived there.
I don’t think the promised follow-up on the Soviet period was written, or at least I haven’t found it, yet.
Asked about whether Ukraine would invite Russia to the summit, he said that Moscow would first need to face prosecution for war crimes at an international court.
“They can only be invited to this step in this way,” Kuleba said.
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On Monday, Ukraine called on U.N. member states to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and to exclude it from the world body. Kuleba said they have long “prepared for this step to uncover the fraud and deprive Russia of its status.”The Foreign Ministry says that Russia never went through the legal procedure for acquiring membership and taking the place of the USSR at the U.N. Security Council after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“This is the beginning of an uphill battle, but we will fight, because nothing is impossible,” he told the AP.
Not even trying to be subtle about it.
Priceless. Stop making us look foolish, for your own good, or we’ll do what we’ve already been doing.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given Ukraine an ultimatum: Fulfil Moscow’s demands — including surrendering Ukrainian territory that Russia now controls — or the Russian army will decide the fate of Ukraine.
Speaking a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin once again said he was open to peace talks — and which the United States has described as disingenuous — Lavrov told Kyiv that it should, for its “own good”, comply with Moscow’s wishes.
“Our proposals for the demilitarisation and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia’s security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy,” state news agency TASS quoted Lavrov as saying late on Monday.
Ukraine threatens Russia’s security by fighting in Ukraine. /s
