Iran and Russia are destroying modern world order that they see as a threat to their dictatorships. When there is no overwhelming response, others follow suit.
Reporter: Your opposition colleagues say Russia should remain whole. You disagree?
Kasparov: Latvia and Uzbekistan couldn't be in one state. Why should Ingria and Yakutia? Chechnya already lives by Sharia law. Empire has no place in the 21st century. The system is so rotten its place is on history's garbage dump.
For those who believe russia’s vast size is somehow natural — just look at this map.
It screams continual colonization and the destruction of entire ethnic groups. Today, over 65 languages in russia are endangered, and hundreds more have already disappeared. And the process was even more brutal than in the Americas, where over 90% of Indigenous people were wiped out by Eurasian diseases. In russia’s case, the Moskovians had to kill manually — with steel — because unlike in the Americas, the local populations had immunity to those diseases.
Most of Ukraine fell under their occupation only in the 1800s. Before 1600, they controlled only a small part of it. So if someone tells you that “Ukraine is historically russian,” show them this map. It’s not. Just like Finland, Poland, and many other countries — Ukraine was never inherently russian. It was simply conquered, like the rest.
This empire stops expanding only when it’s stopped by force. Not by negotiations, kind words, or “understanding” the Kremlin’s grievances. They wage war simply because they can — not because they were “provoked” by NATO, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or whatever monster they imagine under their beds. That’s been their nature for over six centuries. And they won’t change.
Author: Volodymyr Kukharenko