Ssh, it validates two things; that Russians are dumber than a sack of rocks and they they will be punished with a painful death for not folding and going home with their tails between their legs by the actions of the brave Ukes and volunteers who stood up to the Red Army and the Red Menace, like everyone on TV says, because its is 1984 again.
You mixed them up quite well, especially considering that in the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian language was fought and censored, and the Soviets largely made a full-fledged language out of the Ukrainian dialect. And linguistic oppression was not widespread in Soviet Union; in fact, the opposite was true.In every region and republic, the local language was mandatory, and Russian was the second mandatory language and the language of the international language in the union.
So, is it related to ideology after all?
Wars don't happen because of ideas or ideologies. They're not physical. They usually happen for resources. The fact that you're fighting someone who wants to exterminate you because of ideology is a nice bonus.
Except the music and hairstyles aren't as good. =(
The cocaine has gotten better at least
Do they consciously ignore the millions of their own kin sacrificed by their communist government before and after WWII? Just starvation alone probably tops their total war dead, though I don't have the numbers.
Have you seen where Taiwan is on a map? It's close enough to 2 billion Red Chinese that they sometimes make their special forces guys swim there. Aircraft carriers and their planes and destroyer escorts are powerful weapons platforms - until they're outranged and outgunned, thousands of miles away from home, by angry Chinamen who can simply spam them with missiles and swarm them with aircraft and drones until their defenses fail and they're billions of dollars worth of artificial reef.
Say about Kadyrov what you want, and you'd probably be correct, but he is so far the most entertaining Instagram thot I've seen.
There's red tips on those cannons. That means they're toys.
America can just stop doing business with China!
They've been winning engagements in Kharkiv though and blunted assaults on Mariupol for over a month. I'm not sure what performance you're expecting from a national guard unit defending besieged cities just 40 miles from the Russian border.
You've got the language thing backwards. All soviet citizens were to be taught Russian as a standard across the USSR, while Russians were not expected to learn local languages when settled outside of Russia. This caused a situation where the Russian language saw rapid adoption, while other languages saw a decrease in use or if they were smaller provincial dialects died out completely. For groups such as the Karelians and the Mordovians their language was stamped out within just a few decades in the Soviet Union. The soviets also mass deported entire communities which would see their culture and language destroyed in the process.
Much in the same way Germany can stop doing business in Russia.
I agree, but do not discount America's will to sacrifice the Japanese for their war, they've kept them as a client state for a reason. People also forget that China's neo-silk road is going to give them all the resources they could want, the only thing potentially "in the way" of that is the mudcake eating monkeys in east Wakanda. Don't think they'll have a problem with them though. Empire of Dust is a magical movie.
Do modern Russians look like communists? Do you see many monuments to any other communist leader other than Lenin? They think it's the lesser evil that yielded results.
Look at that beautiful lack of dirty rainbow colored buzzcuts.
Get in the plane and crash it into the Chinese, for the glory of
I'm not sure where you are getting laughing stock from when they mauled the first Chechens inbound and held a city for over a month along with one regiment of the natty guard, continued to sneak enemy positions behind their own encirclement and refused to surrender after (I believe) 4 different rounds of 24/7 shelling followed by an offer to surrender.
Imagine spending years of your life working on something in the 80s and it just now gets used to actually kill something.
Don't underestimate the hatred between China and Japan, even to this day. In the event of war with China, Japan would be a very enthusiastic ally. Hell they Chinese would probably rather kill the japs themselves.
Erm, he was referring to the US noping out on Japan in the same way they noped out of Ukraine. America would be willing to fight China to the last Japanese too.
