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Timothy Snyder lecture on Russian history
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A YouTube lecture by historian Timothy Snyder surveying Russian history, framed around what commenters describe as a long-running pattern in Russia's foreign relations over roughly 500 years.
One commenter points to it as a taste of the historical pattern they argue underlies current Russian behavior toward Ukraine and the US.
Humanities & Social Scienceintermediatefreevideo lectures#russian history#timothy snyder#geopolitics#eastern europe#golden horde
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The situations are so uncomparable, the kind of claims, aims, methods and history so different, that I'll just ask you to examine those facts a bit further.
Im not American, perhaps you guessed. What (some/many) Americans dont get is that its not about 20th century geopolitics. It's about a consistent pattern playing out for the past 500 years, more depending on how you count. You can check out Timothy Snyder's lecture for a taste of that history.
It's about Russia never backing off ever. That's the only role the US plays: providing a credible threat greater than Russia can muster. This Russia hasn't changed in that way of dealing, because it is core to its conception (collaborators with the Golden Horde). I never will. Cuba was far less of a thing for them then it was for the US. They didn't back off at all, that is a misunderstanding of their goals and means.