litwin wrote:2 questions
1. are you Ivan ? dont lie this time ...
2. can you read it for me ?
Mongol Foundations of the Moscow State:
https://jsis.washington.edu/ellisoncent ... tate-1.pdf
your posts are full of RT crap as usual . Renaissance borders = European borders . and we both know your Muscovy has always been outside Renaissance borders. try to read Historians like Fernand Braudel, if you can of cos. Fernand Braudel wrote that the eastern border of the GDL has always been European eastern border
(1) No, I am not Ivan. You can actually see that my account is very old. I have long periods without much activity, and for much of my time on this website, I was here with Ivan and there was no Ukraine issue or anything even happening. We disagreed on a number of things.
You'll also see my views evolve over the years.
(2a) I consider Russia a historically European and Christian state. They intermarried with Europeans, practiced the religion of Europe, were seen as Europeans by others... Just like the Poles.
Slavic people are white Christians.
In the Ukraine and Russia both, there are non-white, non-Christian historic populations, but that does not change that the actual Ukrainians (who were identifying as a type of Russian for a very, very long time) and the actual Russians are Christians.
(2b) There's people who emphasize how different Russia & Eastern Europe can be from Western Europe, but these speeches are just like how when people emphasize the difference between Northern & Southern Europe.
the only people who try to tell us that the Russians or the Slavs are not white Europeans are either
- Nazi white supremacists
- Extreme Russophobes with a specifically anti-Russian agenda
Of these two, at least the Nazis have a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the problem, treating the entire Slavic group as Mongol adjacent non-whites, and treating Mediterranean Europeans as generally Arabized non-whites. It's completely incorrect and even stupid to play with race in this kind of way,
but at least there's consistency in their extremism.What you are doing I think is pretty remarkable.