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Jun 12 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
While the Kremlin often contrasts Russia's purportedly "anti-colonial" expansion in the 19th century with the violent British conquest of India, War Minister Chernyshev in 1842 proposed subjugating the Caucasus the British way to minimize bloodshed. Image
General Golovin agreed, saying that the British model of expansion in India was better than the brute force approach of conquest. Image

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Apr 4
Several Africans were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Tatarstan. Russia is now exploiting the attack to spark anti-Ukrainian feelings. If anything, however, this incident can elucidate a gendered and racialized reality behind Russia's charm offensive in Africa. 🧵 Image
"I'm from Kenya. I'm a person of color (...) Those who attacked our hostel today are real barbarians," the person on the video says. They are one of the participants of the "Alabuga Start" program, launched in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 2/
The program targets young people from countries that Russia officially recognizes "friendly," mostly from Africa. Through ads in Russian international media and on the program's social media accounts, they are recruited to move to Russia. 3/ Image
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This quote perfectly encapsulates Putin's arguments for war on Ukraine. Show it to any Russia sympathizer, in academia or beyond, and they will say it's a great explanation of why Russia is right – or not entirely wrong – invading Ukraine.
There's a small problem, however: 👇 Image
This quote has nothing to do with either Ukraine or Russia. We've been there, haven't we? Image
The quote is from Hitler's famous Wilhelmshaven speech, where he reassured that Germany "does not dream of attacking other nations," but will never "tolerate intimidation, or even a policy of encirclement."
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Mar 8
A 1886 city map of Bukhara, the capital of a Tsarist protectorate in Central Asia. The map was part of a secret Russian report to the General Staff that recommended capturing the city, razing its center to the ground, and abolishing the semblance of the colony's independence.🧵 Image
The importance of Bukhara was immense, the author argued. It was the last remnant of Central Asia's bygone greatness. Worse still, it was a "hearth of Islam." The "flame," he argued, "can only be extinguished and covered in blood; the hearth itself, (...) must be scattered ... 2/
... piece by piece and destroyed so that it cannot be restored, and its priests must be eliminated in front of the Russian soldier, before the eyes of the entire people, so that they lose in their eyes their charm and greatness as much as possible." 3/
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Mar 4
I'm writing a book on Ukraine under Russian rule, and here's what I have to say. This situation is radically different from Ukraine's Soviet or tsarist experience. This is Russia's fascist moment of the interwar type, although postponed for a century. 🧵
It originates in the discourses about national rejuvenation and degeneration, frustration over the post-imperial arrangement and the liberal order, dissatisfaction with the national borders ... 2/
… drawn in 1919. Its major challenge is an "enemy" group whose very existence is believed to be a result of a global conspiracy intended to destroy the national body – the Ukrainians. Recasting them into the inferior kind of Russians and eliminating ... 3/
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Dec 18, 2023
In anticipation of a quick victory, Russia’s flagship news show “Vesti nedeli” gives the domestic audience two reasons of why Russia invaded Ukraine: to reshape the world and to eliminate the artificial Ukrainian nation. 1/ Image
The Kremlin's chief propagandist Dmitry Kiselev says that Russia's primary goal is the imposition of a new world order (“novaia konstruktsiia mira”). The message “Bor'ba za mir” is intentionally ambivalent. It means both “a struggle for peace” and “a struggle for the world.” 2/ Image
The second goal is, naturally, to abolish Ukraine as such. The existence of Ukraine creates an artificial division *within* the Russian nation based on political grounds, like in East and West Germany or in North and South Korea. 3/
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Nov 24, 2023
Let's talk about "peace." Russia invaded Ukraine in the name of "peace." In the early phase of the war, "For peace" was its main slogan.
Few seem to remember that the *previous guy* who sent tanks to redraw the borders of Eastern Europe used exactly the same rhetoric.🧵 Image
One may recall that while the preparations for the invasion of Poland were underway, the Nazis were busy planning a "Rally for Peace" in Nuremberg. "For Germany," as Hitler said in his famous Wilhelmshaven speech in April 1939, "does not dream of attacking other nations." 2/ Image
"We do not dream of waging war on other nations, subject, of course, to their leaving us in peace also. The German Reich is, however, in no case prepared permanently to tolerate intimidation, or even a policy of encirclement."
Familiar, isn't it? What else did he say? 3/
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