How did he not know? Many were predicted it. Russia's foolish excursion into Afghanistan wasn't that long ago
WELL actually, I see Markov´s point , ALL PUTIN AND 95 % OF OUR (FREE WORLD EXPERTS ) GAVE 2 WEEKS MAX TO EASTERN - Central Ukraine. Literally all our experts were Moscow fixated 2 years ago,
a leading military strategist Edward Luttwak put it right :
even today,
82% of ‘Slavic’ literature courses are in fact Muscovite (Asiatic) literature courses (the share is even higher if we include Soviet Imperial and post-Soviet writings)....For example, just over a third of courses in history focus solely on
Muscovy but if we count courses that cover
Muscovy together with other countries (e.g. Russia & Eastern Europe – orange bars in Figure 1), the Russian hegemony is apparent again. In fact, some courses effectively treat the USSR as Russia (e.g. “
Muscovy : History of the Soviet Empire ”). Furthermore, some
courses are completely in line with Muscovite historical narratives including both East Slavs and USSR into ’Muscovite ’ history (although some E
astern European and Central Asian nations were occupied by Moscow empire , their histories are quite distinct from
Muscovy ’s). For example, although the share of
Muscovite literature ranges from a whopping 100% in Cornell University to a “modest” 52% in the University of Chicago, the median share is close to 90%. ....Furthermore, when diving deeper into course descriptions, we see that Russian studies appropriated contributions of nations subjugated by
Moscow empire . For example,
Gogol is studied as a
Muscovite author, although he considered himself Ukrainian (Gogol wrote in
Muscovite but recall that Oscar Wilde identified as Irish despite writing in English).
Medieval Rus is classified as Muscovite history, although
it is a part of Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Polish history and was
at war with Moscovia for hundreds of years. To appreciate how absurd this treatment is, imagine treating the
history of Britain as part of French history just because the Normans invaded Britain. One “
Muscovite literature” course covers Isaac Babel (a Jewish author from Odesa),
Svitlana Aleksiyevich (a Belarusian author), and Andriy Kurkov (a Ukrainian author from Kharkiv). We believe Mr. Kurkov would be very surprised to learn that US universities label him as a
Muscovite author while the
Muscovites destroy his city.
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought a sobering realization that, even 30 years after the fall...
voxukraine.org
By the way, do you think Moscow elites try to sell out czar putin like they did to Nichols 2 in 1917 ?
know that they have lost this war ....
know that they have lost this war ....
