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THREAD on: #ImperialInfantilism and the #RussiaUkraineWar.
1. Russian as well as other imperial politics had and has often a strangely infantile dimension. That applies to the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
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1. Russian as well as other imperial politics had and has often a strangely infantile dimension. That applies to the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
@RusVerstehen @russia_matters @valdaitweets @russian_monitor
2. This #infantilistic reaction modus and similar #pathologies of #imperial political behaviour are difficult to capture within #rationalchoicetheory-based explanations. Today, #Russian #politicalinfantilism expresses itself in #Putin's and many #Russians' childish outcry: ...
3. If we, #Russians, cannot get #Ukraine, nobody should get it! We will rather destroy Ukraine than let somebody else have it. There is little to be gained from behaving this way. But now you'll see how angry you've made us! / END
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