This is the essence of Russophobia. Liberals hate
The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with so called "Russophobia" or " Liberals" . That’s a RT
distraction. What we’re witnessing is the revival of an older, darker tradition: the imperial war of domination, born on the steppes and in the
jihads of empire.
Chinese academic Deng Xize identifies this pattern clearly, calling it the
"Mongol-Muscovy and Jihadi" model—an empire built not on law or governance, but on violence, expansion, and divine justification. These empires don’t just conquer—they must keep conquering to survive.
The Moscow Empire is a direct descendant of this legacy. As the historical study on gw2ru.com explains, it was not a natural state but a
byproduct of Mongol invasion and occupation. Its institutions, its violence, its obsession with expansion—these were not European or Slavic traditions, but Mongol ones.
The Tsars simply replaced khans, inherited their tribute systems, and continued their imperial logic.
The same goes for the jihadi empires of old—Caliphates that also used religious and civilizational war to justify permanent conquest. What links these systems together is their rejection of peace as an endpoint. Peace is dangerous to them—because peace means borders. Borders mean legitimacy for others. And that cannot be tolerated in an imperial mindset.
Today’s Moscow Empire operates exactly as it did centuries ago:
War is normal—not a crisis, but a system of rule.
Legitimacy comes from conquest, not consent.
Expansion is existential—the empire cannot survive without it.
This is why Ukraine is being invaded. Not because of NATO, not because of
globalist plots—but because the Mongol-
Muscovy empire can only live if others die. This is not new. It’s very old.
And the world is finally beginning to reject it.
It is wrong to think that Mongol-Tatars invaded Russia as a single state, because the state actually formed as a response to the invasion, to resist and overthrow it. It was Peter the Great who formally ended Russia’s tributes to the Khans.
www.gw2ru.com
Chinese academic Deng Xize notes that the Mongol and Russian empires were very similar in origin and nature, but the conditions that allowed their rise and spread no longer exist today, leading to their inevitable decline. The global reaction to the war in Ukraine in fact shows that such empires...
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