The Russo-Japanese War differed in many ways from Russia's current war against Ukraine, but this old postcard speaks to me: "Your size and weight don't count in my style of wrestling."
The Russo-Japanese War differed in many ways from Russia's current war against Ukraine, but this old postcard speaks to me: "Your size and weight don't count in my style of wrestling."
7/n
...finally retire the old #RussianBear, so that these young republics might flourish and find a new political and economic home.
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Chief source for quotes:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russia-must-stop-being-an-empire-if-it-is-wishes-to-prosper-as-a-nation/
Post-Soviet Russia never shed the imperial identity inherited from the Soviet and Czarist past but Putin's disastrous invasion of Ukraine could now set the stage for the emergence of a post-imperial Russian identity.