Rancid wrote:Yale course on Ukrainian history:
Mentioned this back in the very early days of the war. Worth a watch.
Just 5 minutes in he says, "Original Greek Chersonisos, whose ruins are in Sevastopol and from where the other Cherson took its name by Catherine the Great was occupied by Russia in
2014". He chose a very specific location of course with a very unique history of its own. During the soviet Era, Sevastopol was a closed city, which meant that only existing residents were allowed to live, work and visit the city, all the rest had to get a Sevastopol visa, including of course Ukrainians, Sevastopol throughout all the eras has remained a Russian inhabited & quite directly military administered city. He knows this, but he chooses to lie on this fine point as then that enables him to claim other parts because when you start from denying a very clear Russian sovereignity supported by demography, naval, military, historical and ethnic point of view,, then there is no up from there. If
that's not Russian then the rest are not Russian either. He is doing precisely what he nis accusing Putin of doing.
Moreover he coughs and hesitates when he says "bad history is political memory" which
is precisely what national identity actually
is. And that's what he doesn't tell you.
All this theory is based on a lie, namely that Russia is the aggressor in Sevastopol when that is simply not the case. She is the founder of the city, the native of it and has sovereign military administration of it since 1783.
Others are encroaching upon her sovereign space and her naval headquarters.
Original question:
Who is responsible for this war existing, Rancid? by walking out from Minsk, and carrying on? by walking out of Istanbul?
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...