>"I deem it necessary to make a decision that should have been made a long time ago - to immediately recognise the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic."
>"If Ukraine was to join NATO it would serve as a direct threat to the security of Russia."
>Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia, more precisely, Bolshevik, communist Russia. This process began immediately after the revolution of 1917...
"As a result of Bolshevik policy, Soviet Ukraine arose, which even today can with good reason be called 'Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Ukraine'. He is its author and architect. This is fully confirmed by archive documents... And now grateful descendants have demolished monuments to Lenin in Ukraine. This is what they call decommunisation. Do you want decommunisation? Well, that suits us just fine. But it is unnecessary, as they say, to stop halfway. We are ready to show you what real decommunisation means for Ukraine."
So it appears that Putin is jealous of the People's Republic of China, which has significantly outlasted the old Soviet Union, and he wants to give new and improved USSR 2.0 a go. Oh, this is going to be so much fun! I hope they follow the Chinese economic model. Imagine in 30 years or so a USA which has declined even further, maybe even embroiled in a low-grade civil war, having to face down TWO commie behemoths in Cold War 2: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. I bet the """defense industries""" in all three countries are just creaming themselves at the prospect of all those new weapons systems, all those new proxy wars and all that sweet sweet money. Hey, you didn't care about infrastructure or national healthcare or wage stagnation or any of that faggoty-ass shit anyway, right? Ha ha ha ha I HATE THIS FUCKING PLANET. FUCK.
What’s with all the western propaganda in this board? There’s no war in Ukraine, Russia just sent a peace keeping force to two independent pro Russian states who requested help to protect Russians and Ukrainians from the corrupt Ukrainian Nationalist government who is trying to genocide it’s citizens. There’s no invasion and all the warmongering is from the west.
Daniel Morgan
The all-new USSR will be fascist too if Soviet Leader Putin knows what he's doing. That central planning shit has never and will never work.
Juan Clark
So what's the weather like in Vladivostok, comrade?
Jaxson Fisher
Central planning has its advantages.
Ayden Garcia
Like what, no food, no consumer goods and shoddy weapons systems?
Carson Fisher
Supreme leader Putin executed a perfect strategic invasion while the western world is fighting a neo-civil war. Globohomo will do nothing because they lack backbone unless they are fighting unarmed civilians.
Levi Diaz
The USSR had economic growth during the Great Depression.
Jonathan Robinson
Of course they did, starting from zero and all.
Jaxson Smith
Putin is owned by Washington instaled oligarchs, he clearly does not want a state that would kill them
Ayden Kelly
>Putin is owned by Washington instaled oligarchs No he's not. back in his time some people thought Hitler was owned by the money men. Wrong.
Leo Mitchell
The total dissolution of the USSR was a tragedy for the Russian nation, which from the time of Lenin's death the USSR began to tacitly serve. Gorbachev's role in it was so clear that it is hard to imagine that he did not purposefully dismantle it without believing that he is one of history's most prolific idiots. For Russia to regain the power it once had is an obvious goal - but it will not use the name USSR again. As you can see from Putin's speech, he has no desire to redeclare the USSR, but against countries like the USA and China, the Russian nation must make great strides today to stay competitive for another century.
Aiden Reed
He wants to bring back the Russian Empire, not the USSR, which "created" Ukraine in the first place (even if it was within the same state)
Nolan Gomez
Without an overarching ideology, which people need, what ties the nation together besides mere force? That's not a good plan for the long term. And the greedy vampire oligarchs need to be bought to heel.
Justin Wright
Only in the extreme short term. The world is too unpredictable for the future forecasting central playing requires to be accurate
Gabriel Williams
And yet the Soviet Union was not held together by Communist ideology but by victory and force. The people of the Soviet Union felt bonded together by the victory in WWII - propaganda would remind them that they were citizens of a victorious union, and so people would be proud to support that union, and so they did support that union. After three decades of prosperity under the CPSU's repressive regime, Gorbachev eased up and let media report freely and SSRs openly speak of secession. A repressive state is incredibly useful to tie a nation together. It is more effective than democracy and openness, which result in governmental instability and fomentation of discontent. For the subject of an overarching ideology, Putinism is still developing, but it is based around statism, national conservatism, social conservatism, and Russian nationalism. >greedy vampire oligarchs You can just say jews.
Jeremiah Cook
It was reppresive according to your CIA owned media
Josiah Sanders
>Putinism is still developing, but it is based around statism, national conservatism, social conservatism, and Russian nationalism. If he wanted to do that he should have gotten more behind the All-Russian civic patriotic movement. But it probably would have caused too much on an international panic attack kek.
Before Gorbachev you couldn't just go around saying >Dismantle the Soviet Union, slaughter the [whatever ethnic group], here's my publicly sold independent newspaper where we report on the mistakes and shortcomings of the leadership of the CPSU
Dylan Sanchez
>A state doesn't allow you to subvert them to benefit others Woah.....
