I agree with you here mostly. Except the defeatist conclusion. It does take an authoritarian leader to attack a neighbouring country. If you guys had a functioning democracy with half-decent checks and balances, you’d never have attacked Ukraine. Even if a non-negligible part of the population have imperialistic ambitions, it’s near impossible to go through with them in that situation.
And what people think in the territories of interest outside of the “mother-nation” doesn’t matter in either scenario.
In case the “mother-nation” is run by a strongman who has decided (with support from a part of his population, yes) that some outside territory “rightfully belongs” to them, it doesn’t matter what people think in the territory in question. Cases in point - Karabakh (Azerbaijan), Gaza (Israel).
In case the “mother-nation” is run democratically, and there is some outside territory where a significant part of the population would like to join with the “mother-nation”, it doesn’t matter. The democratic country won’t go imperialist. Cases in point Südtirol (Austria), Åland Islands (Sweden), Northern Ireland (Ireland).
Anyway, changing the subject a bit. Any good straight-talking Russian ultra-patriotic bloggers left on Telegram? Strelkov got jailed, sends a letter now and then that his wife posts. Alksnis died.
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