Comments by "Alexey 9" (@Fillipok) on "Good Times Bad Times"
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@rowanpost6063 You talk in a very interesting way. Since Poland and Russia had a common past, they have the right to discuss how Russia should be divided. Great, no problem. Then it turns out that Russia has exactly the same right in relation to those countries that were associated with Russia. We can also argue in the same way how the countries of the former Russian Empire should act. Here, we will say that Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, in our opinion, should return to Russia. For example, our leaders will say this. Do you like this rhetoric? If you don't like it, then why should we tolerate your meddling in our affairs? Maybe the Bashkirs, Tatars, Chechens, Russians, Buryats, Ukrainians and all other nationalities inside Russia will figure out how to live without you? You are running a very dangerous game that you yourself may not like. We, too, can start dialogues about historical justice. You should have at least a modicum of respect for our country.
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This is what happens when you talk about something you don't understand at all. You argue as you think could happen in Russia. But the reality is far from the current one. There was no request in society for the restoration of the Russian Empire or the USSR. I will say more, any such sentiments in society were suppressed, because a nationalist-minded society can demolish the government, which is only interested in making money on oil and gas.
There is no ideology in Russia. Putin is essentially a populist who adapts to Russian society and says that his speechwriters will write to him. Yesterday he is a liberal, today he is multinational, tomorrow he is Russian, after tomorrow he is a communist.
Society was not prepared for the current war with Ukraine. There was no request for the liquidation of Ukraine. Just at one moment, the authorities decided to launch a military operation against Ukraine. On February 24, Russian society, for the most part, looked at these events with bewilderment. Nothing was explained to the Russian society. People later had to figure out why we need it.
And even then the authorities are not going to finish the deal with Ukraine. Their goal was to pull off a military operation similar to the Georgian one, where they demand that Ukraine give up its claim to the Donbass and Crimea along with the neutral status of Ukraine. But Ukraine did not go for it, deciding to arrange a full-scale war with Russia. Now the noviopes in the Kremlin don't know what to do with Ukraine. They weren't going to do it. They were not going to return Ukraine to Russia, they do not need it, the future of Russia does not interest them. They want to trade with the west, travel west, and now it's all ruined.
When they achieve their goals and agree with the West on the terms of peace with Ukraine, the Russian authorities will quickly suppress the pro-Russian people who will demand to complete the deal with Ukraine. They don't need it. There are no attempts to revive the Russian Empire or the USSR. This is just populism to motivate people to fight and get peace agreements out of Ukraine.
If they were really going to return Ukraine to Russia, then it was necessary to turn out a military operation back in 2014, when Ukraine had a large part of the population on the side of Russia and was not ideologically indoctrinated, when NATO was not ready to fight for Ukraine, but no, they they didn't need it then, they don't need it now. The return of primordially Russian lands is just populism and nothing more, the authorities are not going to revive Russia.
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