Russia and USSR bad because of genocides of empire

          • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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            It probably does but that would be counterproductive to what Russia is trying to achieve. The goal is not just to end it as fast as possible. The goal is to achieve the goals of the SMO with minimal losses while improving the geostrategic situation with respect to NATO. A big WW2 style offensive would capture territory faster but it would come with high losses and the goal is not to capture territory but to destroy the long term fighting capacity of the enemy - and that enemy is NATO, Ukraine is just a proxy that provides the manpower.

            As long as NATO keeps funneling military equipment into Ukraine at a faster rate than it can produce, Russia will keep grinding away and destroying it all. NATO countries are getting demilitarized along with Ukraine, they are having their stockpiles depleted and their own armed forces left with a barebones minimum of equipment. Russia is confident that it can outproduce NATO and at the same time run a normal and thriving economy reoriented toward Asia. Meanwhile Europe will experience de-industrialization and severe economic crisis. Prolonging this is painful of course because ordinary Ukrainians and Russians in the conflict zone suffer (also other Europeans whose ruling classes have fucked them over by sacrificing their country’s economy at the behest of Washington), but this is a war and Russia has national interests that it needs to consider.

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      That’s what makes it so “funny”. You know Ivan IV, the so-called “terrible”? For one thing this nickname is a mistranslation. For the other - were his conquests any worse, any different from anything other European powers were doing at the time? In Americas, in India, at home?