• Hegar@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Why are they including their invasion of Ukraine, Napoleon’s Russian invasion AND the period of Mongol dominance over the Rus? Is Putin claiming the Mongolian conquest of Kievan Rus as a military accomplishment of Russia?

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      7 months ago

      It’s all “the West is coming for us” messaging with the dates they picked, they don’t care about the details.

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        6 months ago

        “the West is coming for us” … they don’t care about the details.

        Surely they at least care about the correct direction.

        East =/= West.