His actions already defined his policy, but now he has a published ideological basis for it.
The 31-page “humanitarian policy”, published more than six months into the war in Ukraine, says Russia should “protect, safeguard and advance the traditions and ideals of the Russian World”.
While presented as a kind of soft power strategy, it enshrines in official policy ideas around Russian politics and religion that some hardliners have used to justify Moscow’s occupation of parts of Ukraine and support for breakaway pro-Russian entities in the east of the country.
“The Russian Federation provides support to its compatriots living abroad in the fulfilment of their rights, to ensure the protection of their interests and the preservation of their Russian cultural identity,” the policy said.
It said that Russia’s ties with its compatriots abroad allowed it to “strengthen on the international stage its image as a democratic country striving for the creating of a multi-polar world.”
Putin has for years been highlighting what he sees as the tragic fate of some 25 million ethnic Russians who found themselves living outside Russia in newly independent states when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, an event he has called a geopolitical catastrophe.
Russia has continued to regard the former Soviet space, from the Baltics to Central Asia, as its legitimate sphere of influence – a notion fiercely resisted by many of those countries as well as by the West.
Doesn’t look like he wants to “expand” beyond wherever there are a bunch of Russkies. But our War-Monger crowd will be happy to tell us that means Appalachia or Hawaii, or sumpin-sumpin.
Can we convince him that he should look hard at taking NYC (Russkies are there!!) and LA (Russkies are there!!)?
Wasn’t that long ago when the GOP, led by a Senator from Wisconsin, was fighting hard to drive Communism out of our country…even to the point of outlawing the Communist Party.
But now, we got a conservative commentator on one of the top conservative blogs in Wisconsin openly expressing their desire for the Commies to invade both of coasts, and nobody even blinked an eye.
And it ain’t just here on this blog. The Republicans all over the country have gone from driving out Comsymps and decided instead to become Comsimps, Guess it is only fitting that their party is associated with the color “red”, eh?
>we got a conservative commentator on one of the top conservative blogs in Wisconsin openly expressing their desire for the Commies to invade both of coasts, and nobody even blinked an eye.
No one blinked an eye, because that’s not what was expressed. You’re an idiot for thinking that.
Jad29 says Putin only wants to conquer places where there are Russkies, and then asks if Putin can be convinced to also consider American cities that have a Russian population for his expansion plans.
But when called out on it, Dason (a self-admitted troll) says nothing of the sort was ever said and ends his latest attempt at white-knighting with his usual name-calling.
Just another Friday afternoon at the top conservative blog in our state….a state where, it should have been noted earlier, the GOP senator and half-a-dozen other Republican lawmakers decided to spend 4th of July meeting with Putin’s underlings in Moscow rather than march in the hometown parades.
Can’t help but wonder what Reagan would be thinking about the state of his party now-a-days…
Idiot. Democrat. BIRM.
All you have when you visit here Penny are lies and attacks, it’s so boorish. My saying you’re an idiot for your blatant and premeditated misrepresentation of Dad’s statement is not name-calling or white-knighting. It’s an accurate description of the summative value you bring here every time you click the “Submit Comment” button in your braindead fashion.
The fact that you accuse me of “name-calling” or “white-knighting” while lying about me being a “self-admitted troll” is the only Alanis Morissette’esque Irony here today or any recent day. Go back to collecting stains, you’re surprisingly good at that.
Can’t help but notice that despite insisting that is not what was meant at all, neither of you have yet to explain what was meant…instead, just more of the usual trolling and nonsense.
>All you have when you visit here Penny are lies and attacks, it’s so boorish
More of your trollin’ & lyin’, but I’ll go ahead and bite. Please point out the lies and/or attacks in these comments made by me:
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/08/23/a-year-on-the-move/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/08/28/dutch-commandos-shot-in-indianapolis/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/08/31/new-york-enacts-more-unconstitutional-gun-laws-after-scotus-ruling/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2020/10/27/dallas-brought-down-the-ussr/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2020/10/29/economy-booms-in-third-quarter/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/09/03/the-great-othering-of-the-american-right/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/06/28/power-to-the-people/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2020/11/05/tax-raisers-dominate-west-bend-common-council/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2020/10/21/time-to-regulate-facebook-twitter-like-the-publishers-they-are-2/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2017/01/29/russia-decriminalizes-domestic-abuse/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2017/01/29/waging-intellectual-battle-while-unarmed/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/09/01/president-threatens-opponents-while-flanked-by-marines/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/08/19/fentanyl-deaths-nearly-double-in-wisconsin/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/07/25/nelson-drops-out-of-democratic-primary-for-u-s-senate/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2017/02/07/the-power-and-politics-of-the-court/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2017/01/30/anti-trump-folks-creating-own-future/
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/07/29/two-americas-one-russia/
You keep saying over&over&over again that all I do on this blog is attack & lie…so it should be easy for you to point out some examples in those threads. But you won’t because you can’t, and you can’t because you’re trolling again. Just like you admitted doing a few days ago….
Jason should have added “useless distractions” and “off-topic inanity”. Otherwise, he’s right.
>neither of you have yet to explain what was meant
You’re admitting that you can’t keep up… that’s a good first step. Since you really seem to think that what Dad wrote is what you implied it meant… you’re an idiot.
>Please point out the lies and/or attacks in these comments made by me:
I’ve never seen such a stupid request. Let me summarize for us all “I’ll cherry pick a few comments and link them here in the hopes to intimidate everyone off the focus that I’m a boor”.
>Just like you admitted doing a few days ago….
No, you admitted a few days ago that all you do is attack and lie.
Heh. Dude has just proven he has no idea what the word “all” means, yet he insists on using it over&over&over.
And the White Knight is talking backwards, with the Red Queen yelling “BIRM!!1!”
> But you won’t because you can’t
https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2022/06/24/scotus-overrules-roe-and-casey/ @ June 27, 2022 at 11:29 pm
If you want more, get them yourself, I don’t argue with liars.
>All you have when you visit here Penny are lies and attacks
all
/ôl/
predeterminer · determiner · pronoun
used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing.
“all the people I met”
The very definition of the word itself combined with the many examples linked above proves that your claim is incorrect. Unless, of course, you are able to actually point out the lies and/or attacks in those messages. But you won’t because you can’t, and you can’t because, as usual, you’re just making this up as you go.
>I don’t argue with liars
That seems to be correct. You’ll defend the liars, agree with the liars, and behave like a liar yourself. But rarely…if ever…do you argue with them.
But you sure do spend a LOT of your time here trying to argue with me…even in many threads where I haven’t even said anything yet…don’t you?
All that aside, the first comment in this thread is clear as day. The Casual Readers who visit this blog from all over our state (country? world?) are not gonna be fooled by your flim-flam-flash-bam attempt to distract&deflect. It’s a silly hill for you to choose to die on, but certainly not the silliest thing you have done here.
You use hyperbole enough to be transparently disingenuous on this Penny. Just grow up for once. Or reply with the last word like the autist you are… Whatever.
Actually one more point and then I’m done. I’ll just say what some.unknownable percent of readers might or might not be thinking (trying to remove any hint of hyperbole for the autists that might be reading)
Penguin’s invented angst at Dad’s words is the latest strategy from the Left on people they disagree with. Imagine if you will in the near future that Putin were to actually attack NYC or LA, as patently silly as that is. The Left would take that as Dad committing treason by inviting Putin to attack and even being a proximate cause to such an attack.
We have many examples in recent history… Here are a couple…
Jan 6th – Trump led the “insurection” with his speech.
Trump is accused nationally of being racist. The prosecution’s evidence? His statement of ” there are good people on both sides” in Charlottesville . The only other proof? That David Duke has said he supports Donald Trump.
As if some raicist stain collector claiming to support another person actually confers that beleif (you’re welcome Penny) on another.
This is what passes for logic and reasoning with the left today. It’s assine at best, and Penny is the poster child for it.
>Doesn’t look like he wants to “expand” beyond wherever there are a bunch of Russkies. Can we convince him that he should look hard at taking NYC (Russkies are there!!) and LA (Russkies are there!!)?
Now that the resident heckler is saying he is finally done with his reckless & imprudent attempt at distraction, lets pick up where we left off….
Unless the “he” refers to someone else, it is blatantly obvious that Dad29 was asking Putin to invade our east&west coasts. Which, given the way he has defended the Russians in past discussions, is not out of character for him at all.
Dude is clearly a CommieSimp and only his Fellow Travelers would claim otherwise.
BirdBrain’s snark detector failure: it is blatantly obvious
Geebus, you are a stupid fowl.
>it is blatantly obvious that Dad29 was asking Putin to invade our east&west coasts.
>This is what passes for logic and reasoning with the left today. It’s assine at best, and Penny is the poster child for it.
‘Nuf said.
>Geebus, you are a stupid fowl.
We’ve had some stupid liberals on here over the years… they/them are trying to take the crown.
>Actually one more point and then I’m done
narrator’s voice As it turns out, he wasn’t done.