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> To be explicit, if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars on the north european plains once
by xdennis 4y ago
> To be explicit, if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars on the north european plains once every ~33 years.
Between Napoleon and the present day Russia has only been invaded twice. By countries trying to liberate themselves in WW1 from the Russian Empire, and by Germany and others in WW2 (also partially a liberation, e.g. Romania tried to liberate the territories which Russia annexed at the start of the war).
> Their greatest existential threat is a united europe, who frequently meddle in its affairs.
Russia has constantly tried to annex everybody (even Putin jokes about this) and you cry about "meddling". Nobody would be meddling in Russian affairs if Russia was broken up like Austria (the previous Jail of Nations).
- drewcoo 4y agoPeople always conveniently forget that time the US invaded the USSR. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-it-true-1918-america-invaded-russia-77646 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-it-true-1918-amer... And wasn't that Romanian land given to the USSR by Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? So the Nazis were "liberating" land they had already agreed to give to someone else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac... These are two minor points. They both, though, serve to show that you're lacking a grounding in the very history you're trying to swat aside.