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."

See https://stoneman.blog/russian-bear-walloped

#OldPostcards #RussianBear #Ukraine #RussianWarInUkraine

Peter Schrank on #Zelensky
#UkraineRussianWar #UkraineWar #UkraineWillWin #EmmanuelMacron #UrsulavonderLeyen #OlafScholz #RussianBear #VladimirPutin #Eu - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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/

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.

Atlantic Council
Peter Schrank on #Ukraine #VladimirPutin #WarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #PutinWarCrimes #RussianBear - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com