TheIntruderAppeal

[ZygmuntZ @DerUntermutt]

@teutonicv1 Oh yeah, says who? The whole concept of "western civilisation" was the creature of the late 19th and 20th centuries (first conceptual usage by Comte, 19th century). Concept of "Europeans" used as early as 8th century. One of these is fake bullshit propaganda, the other isn't.

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

Moscow was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147 while Lviv was founded in the 1250s and why does it matter anyway. The illusionary Ukraine of pro-war propaganda.

[Delia 🪬 @delia_717]

@MonPrimLemon Yeah because they still dominated. USSR broke apart, statuses of people and power dynamics changed. Russians are living in imperial past

[Untel Bruno @Untel667]

Oh comme c’est touchant… Un troll qui traite d’attardé mental celui qui rappelle les massacres bolcheviques.
Oui, les cosaques ont conquis des terres. Et les bolcheviks ont massacré des centaines de milliers d’entre eux, plus des millions d’autres Russes, Ukrainiens, etc. Logique impeccable.
Prochaine étape : on excuse aussi la famine de l’Holodomor parce que les Ukrainiens étaient parfois nationalistes ?

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

As pointed out in another thread, the obvious missing scenario in Melnichenko’s manifesto is a credible road-map for Russia’s eventual integration into the Western security and economic order, which was never offered after the Cold War.

Uniquely in Europe, Moscow was expected to democratize and reform all on its own, without any of the incentives (such as a blueprint for EU and NATO membership or alignment) offered to other ex-Communist states. Even a number of countries wholly in Asia, like Georgia and Armenia, have been included.

I'm not talking here about the 1990s version, where Russia was treated as a defeated and humiliated state on the margins, and thrown a few bones like G8 membership, but a serious attempt to correct the strategic mistake of building a European order in which Russia was positioned as an outsider/enemy rather than incorporated as a sovereign participant.

That path may feel politically impossible right now, but its absence is how we got here, and there won't be a secure Europe until the mistake is corrected. You simply can't have a stable continent with its largest country artificially excluded it from it politically. It's totally unworkable.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

His alternative isn't a “friendly” Russia and this is an important point. Instead he's talking about a predictable Russia.

“The choice for external players is not between a friendly Russia and a hostile one,” he writes, “but between a Russia whose behaviour is predictable and one whose trajectory is unknown.”

So he's not asking the West to like Russia but he's saying that humiliation, dependency, fragmentation or permanent siege won't make Europe safer because it would make Russia less predictable, and therefore more dangerous.

[Román @Zmei_Hhsss]

@inframatt you can see in their unhinged mental state, they post war gore, gloat at the death of strangers, talk about "Mongoloid blood" or "barbarians" all while espousing liberalism, tolerance — their brains are mush. there's not that many of them but they are very loud and very stupid.

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

Dmitri Shostakovich and Yevgeny Mravinsky in Paris, 1960, looking like they're in a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

[Zerg 🇺🇲 @Zerg_IF]

@SciFiArchives Sikorsky fled Russia because of the revolution, commies fumbled the goat

[Moldavian Narodnik 🦬 @real_moldav]

Cheap knockoff of the original one.

[Frost 𓄀🔴🟦⬛️🇷🇺🇧🇾🗡✙ @nightsferatu]

@GCossack23818 1. Ruthenians & Moldavians had largely positive relations, viewing Moldavians as liberators during Moldavian-Polish Wars

2. Pidkova was of Moldavian descent and Zaporozhian Sich in general had a lot of notable leaders of Moldavian descent (like Ivan Sirko & Danylo Apostol)

[Korenchkin @korenchkin]

Medieval republics were wealthy but tiny states, unifications always happened under strong Autocratic regimes

Without Moscow and the Autocracy there is no Russia, just useless feuding Slavix polities like the Balkans, forever

[Сладкий Вождь @dolceduce]

Отличные новости. Я неиронично считаю Мазепу олицетворением украинства:

В 1669 году, состоя на службе у Яна III, изменил ему и перешёл на сторону турецкого вассала - гетмана Петра Дорошенко.

[ex-Z из ХНР / Russian lives matter @pc_suffering]

@tyler_durdenn69 @NikolajSytaj @OlgaBazova Малороссийское дворянство и в России играло огромную роль
Кстати часть моих предков оттуда, правда из намного более мелких чем условный Завадовский

[Dražen Jamić 🇭🇷 @JamicDrazen]

Prije tri godine, Prigožin je razotkrio laž Kremlja da Ukrajina namjerava uništiti Donbas i Ruse tamo, da ih Rusija navodno mora zaštititi. Izgovor za pokretanje invazije i agresije "SVO“ bio je potpuno izmišljen.

Svaka agresija počme sa laži.

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

This photo of an East German Stasi agent taking a photo of a CIA agent taking a photo of him at the same time lives rent free in my head.

[Emmanuel Goldstein @EGoldstein_05]

@RWApodcast Lvov was founded by order of Burundai as a Golden Horde FOB in Galich ulus, for raiding Poland-Lithuania.
Galich ulus was fully integrated into Jochi ulus in 1250s, participating in raids and using Horde's equipment.

[Dimitar Bechev @DimitarBechev]

From Lenin onwards, communism tended to degenerate into cultism rooted in a bizzare reinterpretation of Christian practices and ideas. As noted by Nikolay Berdyayev and others.

[Bibinyi @swartgevaar1]

@MonPrimLemon The university was built by a Swedish king. Estonians were only allowed to attend when it was under Russian rule lol.