#decolonizeRussia
#decolonizeTurkey
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Everyone is right sometimes: socialists, conservatives, nationalists...
None are right on every issue.
@LuffyDFella
Macron is trying really hard with PR lately to be seen as some sort of leader of the West. He sees American weakness and he desperately wants to be a great man
@IAPonomarenko
It doesn't matter if it ends up being 5,000 executed and 50,000 jailed. At the end of this war in Ukraine, every Russian criminal whether a conscript or an Ambassador must face tribunal and consequences.
@ralakbar
@ZelenskyyUa
If the US is ever attacked, I hope all of its allies make sure that the US in inundated with demands and advice and requirements for how the US is allowed to defend itself.
@visegrad24
I'm just gonna say and it and hate me if you want. Immigration in France is out of control. Mass migrants will not care for history the same way people who have been there generations will. Its fact. Immigration must be small enough to integrate people.
@j_parus
I wonder what those percentages would be if the 6,000,000 Crimean Tatars in Turkey, AND the the Crimean Tatars living in and around Idel-Ural were allowed to return to their homeland.
Share it. Share it again the next day. Share it until everyone who follows you gets this message.
Share it until people realize "winning" isn't enough. If there was peace today, Russians would still be like this tomorrow.
"In Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainians entered a liberated village and there lay a murdered mother, to whom the russians tied a crying baby with tape. Our soldier cut the tape to take the child away and a grenade exploded between the child and the mother"
#Ukraine
#RussianArmy
#russia
@irajoe8
@OstapYarysh
@gtconway3d
@cxemu
@SvobodaRadio
No. Instead lets judge them by their silence about this call. By the other calls. By their actions. By their support for this war. In that case maybe only 80% of Russians would be guilty. Is that better?
@ukraine_map
Its a simple calculus. Who in NATO is willing to risk or sacrifice for Turkey? Can NATO count on Turkey in the event of war? I think the answer is no one, and no. This is not an ally.
@JReinerMD
"Until this wave is over" is the unscientific attitude causing the next wave. Wear masks and don't stop.
There has not been a single month since 2020 where masks should have not been worn, everywhere. Schools. Work. Public. Everywhere.
@mildanalyst
Sorry but only "sudden" as in no known health issues. A pattern is clearly emerging: exertion. COVID is causing hearts to fail when strained in ways they normally wouldn't have difficulty with. This explains the prominence of stories of athletes, singers, children etc.
@fangyingx
It is no different in the West, though for different reasons. I have lost two relatives to cardiac arrest, one after a rapid succession of new seizures.
Both had COVID at the time. COVID appears nowhere on the paperwork and most of the family deny COVID had anything to do with
@sentdefender
Russia acts like an 8 year old child or a bad spouse: "You can't be made at me for what I did, because I am actually mad at you!" ๐คฃ๐
@TreasChest
Pretty standard practice to discuss an arrest warrant with the wanted party before deciding if they should be arrested right? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@NORADCommand
Could not locate is not the same as false alarm.
We have pilots saying their sensors were interfered with. The ๐จ๐ฆ Def. Minister implying there was missile lock issues. No visible propulsion but resisting wind currents. Terrestrial or not, this seems pretty serious.
25.Chechens and Ingush, like Circassians and Georgians are European. Today nearly 2 million are subjection to oppression by Russian imperialism. In 1999 the city of Grozny was bombed by Russia killing 35,000. The penalty for not being Russian in the Russian โFederation.โ
Circassians are a European, Caucasian people. Before the Russian genocide, Circassians were thought by many to be the epitome of European beauty. Today, they are forgotten while Russian colonists build homes on their lands.
Then there are the Finnish peoples. The Ingrians, Karelians, Izhorians, Vepsians and Chuds. Altogether their population in 1897 was 390,000. Today it is 143,000. Compare that with Finland, which went from 2.6 million in 1897 to 5.5 million today.
@NjbBari3
COVID is like a lot of viruses...thats the problem. The medical community has so far failed to recognize that viruses have huge long term impacts on people like Type 1 Diabetes, Alzheimer's, and more. We have scientifically failed to recognize the threat of viruses to date
As recently as the 1897 Russian census there were still over 50,000 Meschera in Russia. Today there are none. This genocide was not with guns, it was a cultural genocide. (See Lemkin, 1944: Intentional destruction of a culture, not necessarily involving killing).
Further south we have the Circassians, including the Abkhaz and the Kabardians, victims of genocide. From 1763-1867 over 80% of the population was killed or expelled from their homelands. Sochi, in Circassia, has become a favorite symbol in Russia of its dominance and greatness.
Udmurts are related to Finns. They are Europeans, traditionally with pale skin and red hair. Not what many in the West think of when they think of colonized peoples suffering oppression. A people many Europeans can relate to, who deserve freedom, self-determination, and to exist.
Mordvins are also related to Finns. They are Europeans, but their language has all but been replaced by Russian. Mordvins are on the front lines of Russian imperialism and assimilation, but their culture and identity deserves to survive as much as any European culture.
@ulrichspeck
The Biden administration seems to be doing its best to force Europeans to take the lead. Sure the US wants to support Ukraine, but they clearly keep trying not to be the "leader" in this. The vacuum of true strong European leadership is astounding.
@sentdefender
I wanna know what each of these countries who oppose the munitions would do if 20% of their countries were occupied by Russia. The fact is there is NO QUESTION they would use cluster munitions.
The Udmurts. In 1897 their population was 420,000. Given the standard European population growth rate, their population should be around 860,000 today but it is only 560,000. In their homeland of Udmurtia they represent only 28% of the population today.
Next, Mordvins. In 1897 their population was over 1 million. Their population today should be over 2 million, but instead their population has declined to 750,000. Their homeland is more than twice the size of modern Mordovia, yet they make up less than 40% of the population.
For the British and Spanish, it was easy to identify colonial lands because they were oversees. Russia colonized its neighbours. But Russia has got away with colonizing its neighbours for far too long, and it must come to and end.
What now? Ukraine and Eastern Europe may have more friends and allies against Russian imperialism than they think. Formally recognize the genocides, recognize the independence movements, lead Europe by liberating the captive nations of Europe and Asia.
In 2019, Prof. Albert Razin, an Udmurt, set himself on fire to protest Russian assimilation. A banner beside his body read, โIf my language disappears tomorrow, I am ready to die today.โ But where are the โFree Udmurtiaโ bags and protests? Perhaps people are too busy with Tibet?
Next there are the Chechens and Ingush, or the Nakh people. A population that, to this day, tries to resist Russian assimilated and colonization. In 1944 nearly 1/3 of their population was forcibly resettled to Kazakhstan and other turkic nations.
Fourth, the Mari people. In 1897 their population was 375,000. Today it is 560,000, 205,000 less than the growth should have been. Today they represent only 43% of the population in their homeland.
Next the Komi. In 1897 their population was 260,000 and today is 430,0000, although the population should be roughly 100,000 more if not for assimilation and oppression. In 1926 they represented 92% of the population in most parts of their homeland, today they are less than 20%.
Also in Dagestan are the Laks. A European ethnicity of about 200,000. In 1877 many Laks were forcibly relocated to remote areas of the Russian empire. Lak resistance was oppressed against in 1930 and 1944, and today the descendants of former victims of oppression cry for freedom.
@visegrad24
Yeah, only its the rich Russians who get to enjoy a visit to democracies. Let's call this what it was, France and Germany don't want to cut off money.
The Komi are another Finnic people, like Finnish and Estonian. The Komi homelands were, like Australia was for the British, a place for Soviets to send political prisoners. Combined with an active effort to destroy Komi identity, today Komi culture is being destroyed by Russia.
@nexta_tv
You know, for Russians constantly saying the West is decadent and immoral....I have never seen so many people with plastic surgery and enhancement work done as Russians (and it always looks bad)
The Mari are European. They are Finnic. You would not look at them twice if you saw them walking through Stockholm or Helsinki or Berlin. Sadly, however, they are not seen by the West and if Russia has its way they may one day never be seen again.
Today, dozens of ethnicities are undergoing the same process. Peoples of subjugated ethnicities are being assimilated over decades and centuries, absorbed into the Russian identity, now identifying as ethnic. Russian themselves. This is how the โRussianโ population got so large.
Next there are the Sami people, a people whose territory expands across northern Scandinavia. Their population in Russia from 1897 to today has remained roughly stable at 2,000. There are 700,000 Russian colonists on their land.
Today, roughly 2.3 million Circassians remain in their homelands while over 5 million remain displaced in other nations. Over 7 million Russian colonists occupy Circassian lands. The native population would assuredly be far higher than that 7 million were it not for genocide.
Altogether, without counting Ukrainians and Belarusians, there are over 8 million European people in Russia, and over 5 million displaced, by Russian imperialism and colonialism. 13 million European oppressed, facing cultural genocide and assimilation.
@McFaul
I actually found it disjointed, rambling, and even boring. As someone who studies history and more specifically historical anthropology.ethnography, and peoples - including Russia - it was like listening to a drunk uncle at Christmas trying to explain my job to me. It was sad.
Next there are the Lezgins (including Tabasarans, Tsakhurs, Rutuls, and Aghuls). While some Lezgins live in Azerbaijan, over 500,000 live under Russian colonial oppression in southern Dagestan. Like the Chechens/Ingush, in the 1940s the Lezgins suffered mass forced locations.
That Europe can forget over 13 million Europeans slowly being wiped out by โGreat Russian Chauvinismโ is a stain of blood on the European flag. And what of non-European peoples being oppressed, adding to that figure.
@daddybg
@denise_dewald
The news keeps lying. They also say it is primarily affecting gay men. Study out of the UK shows it is airborne. Not peer reviewed yet, but for the study doesn't need to be. It either is being detected in the air or its not - and it is.
Avars have tried to resist recent Russian laws making Russian mandatory, but native languages optional in schools, however all Duma representatives of the Caucasus failed to oppose the legislation. A people cannot be said to have self determination if they have no representation.
In 2001, Leonid Markelov was appointed head of the Mari Republic and it has since been subjected to intense Russification. The Mari language is no longer taught. In 2005, the European Commission expressed concern over oppression of the Mari - surprise, that didnโt help.
Lenin called this ideology โGreat Russian Chauvanism,โ and actively fought against Russian superiority. Lenin tried to promote the rights of oppressed nations to self-determination, to equality, and to linguistic/cultural rights. We know now these ideas didnโt get far in Russia.
A population larger than 38 European countries, larger than Greece, Belgium, Czechia, Hungary, or Portugal is been slowly destroyed. Yet where is Europe? Where is democracy? Where is freedom and human rights?
@SamRamani2
UKRAINIANS ARE NOT RUSSIA'S BROTHERS. Ukrainians are not a brotherly nation of Russia. I don't know who has to hear this, but stop. Stop feeding Putin's propaganda that Ukrainians and Russians are so similar.
Unlike in Anzerbaijan, Lezgins in Russia are kept poorly educated with a 32% unemployment rate. While there is a desire among the population for self-determination, a lack of employment and education, and fear of Russia since the attack against Chechnya keeps the Lezgins subdued.
There are also roughly 1 million Avars in Russian Dagestan. Since Russian colonization began in the 1800s, Avars suffered extreme taxation and property loss leading to large emigration to Turkey. Nearly 60% of Avars now speak Russian.
@DrEricDing
As a man who is also in deep love with a woman, if the woman I love was ever embarassed and made to feel ashamed on national television like that, I would do the same and apologize to no one. And I consider that being a good role model to my children.
East of the original homeland of the Slavic Russians, they began to expand assimilating peoples and wiping out cultures. Largely Finnic and Baltic peoples like the Merya and Muroma, among others, who once assimilated established the modern Russian ethnicity.
How do we stop the Russian campaign of cultural genocide which has been a policy of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and now the Russian Federation for centuries? How can Europeans not.
โRussianโ as we understand it today began, similar to Ukrainians and Belarusians as Slavic tribes banded together to form a unified identity. Unlike Ukrainians or Belarusians however, Russians are no longer predominantly Slavic and their population grew through assimilation.
But who are these oppressed nations? These people under constant threat of assimilation and cultural extinction today? Many in the West are unaware, blissfully ignorant that colonialism is still alive in well in Europe and Asia within the Russian โFederation.โ
Russiaโs population is an estimated 143 million people, of which Russia claims 131 million as ethnic Russians. Adjusting for proportional population growth since the 1897 census, and discounting assimilation, the "ethnic" Russian population is likely closer to 113 million.