Oh no. He was all for himself but that doesn't mean he didn't do some good indirectly. He still could have gone to war but he knew that if he did the citizens would kill him and revolt
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by Thermodolia » Sun May 21, 2017 5:59 am
by Shofercia » Sun May 21, 2017 11:59 am
Polvamaa wrote:Russia, compared to the west is one of the most fanatic nations in the world. They want to greb more and more land to free the "opressed russian minority" who were sent to the lands were they are by the USSR itself. They are very, very fanatic as evidenced in Estonia during the bronze soldier controversy (No controversy, a full on riot.), when the removal of a monument that portrayed murderers and kidnappers of Estonian people as heroes. The russian goverment claim no responsibility for the actions of the USSR. I say Go Ukraine for doing this.
Polvamaa wrote:Constantinopolis wrote:Most of those lands used to be part of Russia for about 300 years. Remember, Tsarist Russia was bigger than the USSR. Russia was at its greatest territorial extent in 1914. Then it lost some land due to WW1 and the Revolution, then the USSR took back most of that land after WW2, and then Russia lost it again with the fall of the USSR.
So, from the Russian point of view, what happened was that some historical regions of Russia broke off and started acting intensely anti-Russian. Imagine if a part of your country that has a different culture from the rest of the country decides to break off, and then says that it was occupied by you during all that time when you lived in the same country and that you are evil and all the people who share your culture don't belong there.
I would be okay, because it's from a different culture. For example, in Estonia during the first republic there were around 2% russians. After the USSR, there were 25% russians in Estonia. Russification was practiced by both USSR and the Russian Empire but the russian minorities in Europe have the largest nation in the world in the as a homeland. Those who say that the regions that broke off from the Empire or the USSR are Russian are very uneducated in history.
Gallia- wrote:Polvamaa wrote:I would be okay, because it's from a different culture. For example, in Estonia during the first republic there were around 2% russians. After the USSR, there were 25% russians in Estonia. Russification was practiced by both USSR and the Russian Empire but the russian minorities in Europe have the largest nation in the world in the as a homeland. Those who say that the regions that broke off from the Empire or the USSR are Russian are very uneducated in history.
It's broadly accurate to compare Russia's colonization of Eastern Europe with other Europeans' colonization of America, TBH.
Even be completely accurate.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article/139315

by Gallia- » Sun May 21, 2017 12:15 pm
by Shofercia » Sun May 21, 2017 2:06 pm
Gallia- wrote:Russia's eastward expansion is also its largest territorial gain, so that will obviously be the most studied. Clearly that means Russia never colonized Poland, Latvia, or Estonia. No siree.
http://www.lituanus.org/1964/64_2_01_Vardys.html
As an aside, the Russian "annexation" of Crimea is quite similar to the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in the USSR's most imperialist era.

by Raventsvo » Sun May 21, 2017 2:45 pm
Al Imaru wrote:Podgotov'te svoy anys dlya Vtorzheniya? And what does that mean? The only word I know in that is для, which means for. The rest is nonsense, just as he promised.

by Constantinopolis » Mon May 22, 2017 11:04 pm
Polvamaa wrote:Constantinopolis wrote:Most of those lands used to be part of Russia for about 300 years. Remember, Tsarist Russia was bigger than the USSR. Russia was at its greatest territorial extent in 1914. Then it lost some land due to WW1 and the Revolution, then the USSR took back most of that land after WW2, and then Russia lost it again with the fall of the USSR.
So, from the Russian point of view, what happened was that some historical regions of Russia broke off and started acting intensely anti-Russian. Imagine if a part of your country that has a different culture from the rest of the country decides to break off, and then says that it was occupied by you during all that time when you lived in the same country and that you are evil and all the people who share your culture don't belong there.
I would be okay, because it's from a different culture. For example, in Estonia during the first republic there were around 2% russians. After the USSR, there were 25% russians in Estonia. Russification was practiced by both USSR and the Russian Empire but the russian minorities in Europe have the largest nation in the world in the as a homeland. Those who say that the regions that broke off from the Empire or the USSR are Russian are very uneducated in history.

by Sharania » Tue May 23, 2017 3:58 pm

by United Muscovite Nations » Tue May 23, 2017 4:17 pm
Sharania wrote:Why are some of the usual Russophobes so outraged at that decision (absolutely correct, IMO) by the beleaguered Ukrainian state? Where was your indignation and cries when the Russians killed people in Donbass, plundered their houses? Were you crying for Ukrainian blood, for Ukranian orphans, for people, maimed only to satisfy Putin’s desire to get his own “lebensraum” in the form of “Russian World”?
Ukraine has all rights, both moral and judicial, to do everything in its power to repel the aggressor-state.
If there are Russians among you – you should be ashamed for your government. You are abetting Putin and his aggression, and the blood of innocent Ukrainians is on your hands also.
How can you sleep, how can you live without tears, shame, pain, burden of guilt? How can you eat and drink without suffocating from all these deaths and blood? How? How?!
In your place I’d start begging Ukraine and whole civilized world for mercy. On your knees. For centuries to come. That much blood is on your hands.

by MERIZoC » Tue May 23, 2017 4:41 pm

by Gallia- » Tue May 23, 2017 4:44 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Sharania wrote:Why are some of the usual Russophobes so outraged at that decision (absolutely correct, IMO) by the beleaguered Ukrainian state? Where was your indignation and cries when the Russians killed people in Donbass, plundered their houses? Were you crying for Ukrainian blood, for Ukranian orphans, for people, maimed only to satisfy Putin’s desire to get his own “lebensraum” in the form of “Russian World”?
Ukraine has all rights, both moral and judicial, to do everything in its power to repel the aggressor-state.
If there are Russians among you – you should be ashamed for your government. You are abetting Putin and his aggression, and the blood of innocent Ukrainians is on your hands also.
How can you sleep, how can you live without tears, shame, pain, burden of guilt? How can you eat and drink without suffocating from all these deaths and blood? How? How?!
In your place I’d start begging Ukraine and whole civilized world for mercy. On your knees. For centuries to come. That much blood is on your hands.
What does banning the use of an email website do to "repel the aggressor state"?
MERIZoC wrote:"All russian people are responsible for the actions of Putin" is a totally rational and not xenophobic take

by United Muscovite Nations » Tue May 23, 2017 4:46 pm
Gallia- wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:What does banning the use of an email website do to "repel the aggressor state"?
It discourages people from potentially compromising the cyber security of their nation.
If they want to use Russian software and services, they can go to Russia. Ukraine is better off without them.

by Gallia- » Tue May 23, 2017 4:52 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Gallia- wrote:
It discourages people from potentially compromising the cyber security of their nation.
If they want to use Russian software and services, they can go to Russia. Ukraine is better off without them.
It also probably screws over thousands of small business who are dependent on mail.ru, as well as cuts people off from communicating with friends and relatives across the border.

by Conserative Morality » Tue May 23, 2017 4:55 pm
Gallia- wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:It also probably screws over thousands of small business who are dependent on mail.ru, as well as cuts people off from communicating with friends and relatives across the border.
Who cares. They can use Google mail or something.
It serves the oodles of Ukrainian startup software companies that can now sell their products with a diminished fear of Russian market competition drowning them out. By diminishing the national Russian market share of the Ukrainian software market, the government has managed to reduce dependency on Russian services and increase its cyber security against attacks similar to those that have actually killed Ukrainian soldiers.
The only people being hurt are Russian businessmen and Kremlin bureaucrats. Everyone else, at worst, is mildly inconvenienced.

by Gallia- » Tue May 23, 2017 5:03 pm
Conserative Morality wrote:Gallia- wrote:
Who cares. They can use Google mail or something.
It serves the oodles of Ukrainian startup software companies that can now sell their products with a diminished fear of Russian market competition drowning them out. By diminishing the national Russian market share of the Ukrainian software market, the government has managed to reduce dependency on Russian services and increase its cyber security against attacks similar to those that have actually killed Ukrainian soldiers.
The only people being hurt are Russian businessmen and Kremlin bureaucrats. Everyone else, at worst, is mildly inconvenienced.
Hadn't thought of it that way.
Still not a fan, but it makes more sense this way.

by United Muscovite Nations » Tue May 23, 2017 5:27 pm
Gallia- wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:It also probably screws over thousands of small business who are dependent on mail.ru, as well as cuts people off from communicating with friends and relatives across the border.
Who cares. They can use Google mail or something.
It serves the oodles of Ukrainian startup software companies that can now sell their products with a diminished fear of Russian market competition drowning them out. By diminishing the national Russian market share of the Ukrainian software market, the government has managed to reduce dependency on Russian services and increase its cyber security against attacks similar to those that have actually killed Ukrainian soldiers.
The only people being hurt are Russian businessmen and Kremlin bureaucrats. Everyone else, at worst, is mildly inconvenienced.
by Shofercia » Tue May 23, 2017 5:29 pm
Sharania wrote:Why are some of the usual Russophobes so outraged at that decision (absolutely correct, IMO) by the beleaguered Ukrainian state? Where was your indignation and cries when the Russians killed people in Donbass, plundered their houses? Were you crying for Ukrainian blood, for Ukranian orphans, for people, maimed only to satisfy Putin’s desire to get his own “lebensraum” in the form of “Russian World”?
Sharania wrote:Ukraine has all rights, both moral and judicial, to do everything in its power to repel the aggressor-state.
Sharania wrote:If there are Russians among you – you should be ashamed for your government. You are abetting Putin and his aggression, and the blood of innocent Ukrainians is on your hands also.
Sharania wrote:How can you sleep, how can you live without tears, shame, pain, burden of guilt? How can you eat and drink without suffocating from all these deaths and blood? How? How?!

Sharania wrote:In your place I’d start begging Ukraine and whole civilized world for mercy. On your knees. For centuries to come. That much blood is on your hands.

by Gallia- » Tue May 23, 2017 5:30 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Gallia- wrote:
Who cares. They can use Google mail or something.
It serves the oodles of Ukrainian startup software companies that can now sell their products with a diminished fear of Russian market competition drowning them out. By diminishing the national Russian market share of the Ukrainian software market, the government has managed to reduce dependency on Russian services and increase its cyber security against attacks similar to those that have actually killed Ukrainian soldiers.
The only people being hurt are Russian businessmen and Kremlin bureaucrats. Everyone else, at worst, is mildly inconvenienced.
Let me stop you right here: Ukraine's GDP per capita is less than $3000. I don't see hardly anyone being able to start up a major business in that environment.
by Shofercia » Tue May 23, 2017 5:37 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:What does banning the use of an email website do to "repel the aggressor state"?
MERIZoC wrote:"All russian people are responsible for the actions of Putin" is a totally rational and not xenophobic take
Gallia- wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:What does banning the use of an email website do to "repel the aggressor state"?
It discourages people from potentially compromising the cyber security of their nation.
If they want to use Russian software and services, they can go to Russia. Ukraine is better off without them.
Gallia- wrote:MERIZoC wrote:"All russian people are responsible for the actions of Putin" is a totally rational and not xenophobic take
Putting sanctions on Russia, banning oil exports to Imperial Japan, preventing sales of raw materials used in bombs and missiles to Saddam's Iraq, etc. All just irrational, xenophobic takes on a situation?
This is actually extremely rational. By banning Russian goods and services, most people will find alternative goods and services, either from the West or from Ukraine.
by Shofercia » Tue May 23, 2017 5:45 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Gallia- wrote:
It discourages people from potentially compromising the cyber security of their nation.
If they want to use Russian software and services, they can go to Russia. Ukraine is better off without them.
It also probably screws over thousands of small business who are dependent on mail.ru, as well as cuts people off from communicating with friends and relatives across the border.
Gallia- wrote:It serves the oodles of Ukrainian startup software companies that can now sell their products with a diminished fear of Russian market competition drowning them out. By diminishing the national Russian market share of the Ukrainian software market, the government has managed to reduce dependency on Russian services and increase its cyber security against attacks similar to those that have actually killed Ukrainian soldiers.
Gallia- wrote:The only people being hurt are Russian businessmen and Kremlin bureaucrats. Everyone else, at worst, is mildly inconvenienced.
Shofercia wrote:Oh well, more quality emigrants for Russia...
by Shofercia » Tue May 23, 2017 5:51 pm
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Let me stop you right here: Ukraine's GDP per capita is less than $3000. I don't see hardly anyone being able to start up a major business in that environment.
Gallia- wrote:Russia's is less than Malaysia's. Less than Romania. Less than Grenada.
It's almost like GDPPC is irrelevant or something.

by Gallia- » Tue May 23, 2017 6:07 pm

by MERIZoC » Tue May 23, 2017 6:20 pm
Gallia- wrote:MERIZoC wrote:"All russian people are responsible for the actions of Putin" is a totally rational and not xenophobic take
Putting sanctions on Russia, banning oil exports to Imperial Japan, preventing sales of raw materials used in bombs and missiles to Saddam's Iraq, etc. All just irrational, xenophobic takes on a situation?
This is actually extremely rational. By banning Russian goods and services, most people will find alternative goods and services, either from the West or from Ukraine.

by United Muscovite Nations » Tue May 23, 2017 6:49 pm
Gallia- wrote:GDPPC says nothing about disposable income. At all.
It's national GDP divided by population. It provides no data except a tenuous and likely false comparison point for quality of life. Somehow I doubt that the quality of life in France and USA are substantially different, despite a difference in $15,000 or so in GDPPC (PPP). Ditto for Luxembourg and USA, despite Luxembourg being nearly twice the GDPPC of USA.

by Improved werpland » Tue May 23, 2017 7:03 pm
Constantinopolis wrote:People from different nationalities and ethnicities living side by side is a good thing. Of course, it's also true that there is unfortunately a lot of racism in modern Russia, directed against people from those ethnic minorities (because, you guessed it, they are "stealing Russian jobs"). But the solution isn't national segregation.

by Improved werpland » Tue May 23, 2017 7:05 pm
MERIZoC wrote:"All russian people are responsible for the actions of Putin" is a totally rational and not xenophobic take
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