⬆️ @samsteiner
>> #Russia invades. That's what Russia does.
2016: Russia invades #US, but by 2020 it was repelled.
2024: Russia successfully invades US again, and this time it will be harder to push back.
Simply the truth…
@RegisteredHere @spacehobo @samsteiner They were invaded by Germany first, though, so fair play.
OTOH, Japan in 1945 probably counts, as they declared war on the Japanese rather than the other way around. They also invaded then-Persia (now Iran) in 1941.
Russia's entire identity is built on imperial expansion. It has no other sense of self as a nation.
The genocides against indigenous Siberians, Circassians and many others are largely forgotten, but were integral to the power through wealth plundering of the Czars.
You forgot about all the invasions from before 1900.
@samsteiner I don’t mean to engage in whataboutism but…..
I shudder to think of how long the list for the US or the UK would be.
To pare down a US invasion list to this size, we’d have to go out of our way to *pretend* that, for the past century plus, the US weren’t methodically installing puppet leaders all around the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, and on and on) to rob 3rd-world countries of resources & strategically quash populist/socialist movements.