I totally agree.Trying to project our desires of how Russia should look like through our western eyes has been a flaw that is self defeating.History shows that Russia always has the same rigid expansionist outlook,and the West has generally been purposefully looking away.This pacifist policy needs to be radically changed as it continues to cause death and destruction.We need to heed and follow the warnings of eastern European States more than western Europe,and the feeble US administrations that have lead to this war.
Yes, hopefully the Western perspective towards Russia will change. And, as I also wrote in the article, ironically Putin is doing a great service in this regard -- making the West understand the true nature of Russia.
Almost all Russians are imperialists. Liberals, Nationalists, Socialists, Conservatives, Leftists, Rightists, etc. The anti-imperialist Russians are mostly not ethnical Russians, but belong to some other peoples of Russia.
Yes. Although there are some nominally "ethnic Russians" from Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Ingria, Pskov, Novgorod, Siberia and other parts of Russia that vouch for independence for their regions and are clearly anti-imperialist.
On another hand I see that many non-Russian renegades loyally serve the Russian interests. And even here the "oppositionist" Kara-Murza just does not remember his roots. Maybe his ancestors were killed in Qazan by Muscovite forces under Ivan Yavuz in 1552, or on the Qoban by Great Russian General Suvorov in 1783, or were deported from their homeland Qirim, but it does not matter - he's a Russian now.
I totally agree.Trying to project our desires of how Russia should look like through our western eyes has been a flaw that is self defeating.History shows that Russia always has the same rigid expansionist outlook,and the West has generally been purposefully looking away.This pacifist policy needs to be radically changed as it continues to cause death and destruction.We need to heed and follow the warnings of eastern European States more than western Europe,and the feeble US administrations that have lead to this war.
Yes, hopefully the Western perspective towards Russia will change. And, as I also wrote in the article, ironically Putin is doing a great service in this regard -- making the West understand the true nature of Russia.
Almost all Russians are imperialists. Liberals, Nationalists, Socialists, Conservatives, Leftists, Rightists, etc. The anti-imperialist Russians are mostly not ethnical Russians, but belong to some other peoples of Russia.
Yes. Although there are some nominally "ethnic Russians" from Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Ingria, Pskov, Novgorod, Siberia and other parts of Russia that vouch for independence for their regions and are clearly anti-imperialist.
On another hand I see that many non-Russian renegades loyally serve the Russian interests. And even here the "oppositionist" Kara-Murza just does not remember his roots. Maybe his ancestors were killed in Qazan by Muscovite forces under Ivan Yavuz in 1552, or on the Qoban by Great Russian General Suvorov in 1783, or were deported from their homeland Qirim, but it does not matter - he's a Russian now.