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View submission: Treacherous Albion is back on top
It’s taken me a while but I’ve come to realise that we’ll never have peace in Europe with Russia in its current configuration on our eastern border. The Russian Federation is an empire in all but name. Chechens, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Yakuts, Ossetians, Tuvans, etc… all had their independent states at some point in time until the Russian empire swallowed them. And as long as these peoples don’t have their own states, independent of Russia, Russia will continue to behave like the empire it is.
The war in Ukraine must not just end with Russia’s defeat, but the dismantlement of Russia and freeing of peoples under Russian oppression. Or we’ll be in the same position in 50 years’ time when another authoritarian (inevitably) decides to flex Russian muscle.
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