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[personal profile] vak
"The message is: that’s it. It’s over. You don’t have an empire any more. You don’t have a “near abroad” or a “sphere of influence.” You don’t have the right to tell the Ukrainians what to do, any more than we British have the right to tell our former colonies what to do. It is time for Putin to understand that Russia can have a happy and glorious future, but that like Rome and like Britain, the Russians have decisively joined the ranks of the post-imperial powers, and a good thing, too."

(The Spectator)

Date: 2024-09-29 05:56 (UTC)
juan_gandhi: (Default)
From: [personal profile] juan_gandhi
He's right, but the world has change so much that nobody would care now.