we ALL KNOW the "rus people" were the result of relentless conquest by norsemen of supine slavs. their entire "culture" is downstream of the longship and the seax
if anything we should insist on the return of muscovy and kyiv to the dominion of Great Uppsala
russia has NEVER BEEN an independent state! first they paid tribute to the Norsemen; then they knelt before debauched Byzantium and adopted the superficialities of their Pantokrator with none of his glory or might
FAKE CULTURE
Feb 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
thought on ukraine after spending some time driving around in silence
maybe you could frame victory conditions in the following way
1. if the war goes quickly and cleanly RU wins
2. if it's a slog RU loses; maybe UA "wins"
this is conventional wisdom. but, a third issue:
3. if the govt of RU or a major western power collapses it's victory for the other side nearly independent of how the war in UA is going
this feels under-considered to me
maybe it's not for RU, people are whispering about internal RU military dissent and public opinion. but,
Feb 21, 2022 • 58 tweets • 13 min read
whats a german chancellor gonna do say nooooooooooo you cant anschluss
canadians btfo by canada
this thread now exists to catalogue deficiencies in canadian civic rights
you can be compelled to self incriminate as long as its not your case and they cant directly use that evidence against you lmao pity about parallel reconstruction innit
