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I feel sometimes you just make it up, that does sound like him though

Luke, do you have a secret Craner back channel?

He's not wrong is he

To continue the trip into Russian mindset, here's top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, like Wogan but with more genocide, going on about conducting strategic nuclear strikes. This stuff is obviously for internal consumption because seen from the outside, it looks impotent and deluded. Russian...

This is worth reading if you want to see a high ranking Russian official get insanely bent out of shape about Ukraine. Rational response to NATO threat, I think not:

Most peo Interesting article about that quote here: For some reason the link itsn't working - the article is "Did Putin Really Say That?" by Mike Pole on Medium.

There's also the role of Russian jealousy/resentment. There's an absolutely brilliant chapter in Sergei Medevev's book Return of Leviathan, about this. I'd copy some in here but have lent it out. It came out a few years ago but remarkable how prophetic it is about the war. He doesn't talk about...

Reestablishment of Russian Empire/Great power status/a multi-polar world. I can't recall Putin's quote about the collapse of the USSR but he absolutely viewed it as a (if not *the*) great historical tragedy.

Big piece from Timothy Synder. Sorry to just drop the big text bombs but I can't be fucked with relitigating this stuff. I'm 10 videos deep into Synder's History of Ukraine lectures btw. Highest recommendation. NAZIS, NUKES & NATO . . . or what the Russo-Ukrainian war is NOT about. "In this...

Vim, try reading a bit about longstanding Russian attitudes towards Ukraine, its reality as country, its right to exist and so on. The invasion is a deeply imperialist project resting on exactly the attitudes you'd expect that support this.

Bit more on this from Konstantin Kisin, discussing Putin's speech back in Ocotber. “I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen, so let me summarise as a professional translator with 10+ years’ experience. He states, as he has done from...

"Ukraine had a short skirt on, your honor"

The US has taken some steps to avoid escalation, believe it or not i.e. limiting the range of missiles given to Ukraine so they can't strike within Russian borders. I imagine that's a calculus that changes week by week .

USSR? And its a simplification anyway - it's contested, goes back and forth, country to country.

The placement of nuclear weapons within striking range of the US by an openly hostile power seems to me markedly different to sovereign nations joining an existing defensive alliance.

Occupying powers always have a pretext, they never say in the modern world, "oh yeah expanding territory and stealing resources makes me feel great, let's have at it". We don't have to just accept it anymore than we had to accept WMD as a justification for Iraq

It's also a consequence of years of appeasement and weakness on our part, which I suspect, just what you'd be arguing for.

Yeah ask the Poles how they feel about Russia and your CMC analogy. Ask any of Russia's neighbours. The invasion is more like Hitler's going into Poland to "protect native German speakers" than Cuba.

I don't think they're the same at all. In terms of intentions, provocations etc.

And ultimately it's up to Ukrainians.