Interesting article that talks about the similarities between now and 1938, and the sort of lessons we can learn from history.

        • Diva (she/her)
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          -4125 days ago

          Russia was famously invaded multiple times by the same sorts of people they’re fighting now.

            • Diva (she/her)
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              -3325 days ago

              You are really good at reading between the lines, but I’m referring to the wide array of foreign mercenaries mostly.

              • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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                2625 days ago

                None of those foreign mercenaries have invaded Russia. They are inside the borders of Ukraine defending Ukraine from invasion.

                • Diva (she/her)
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                  -1925 days ago

                  I’m not even the native english speaker here, but the line I responded with originally was:

                  Russia was famously invaded multiple times by the same sorts of people they’re fighting now.

                  there are French, German, UK, US and a wide array of european mercenaries there, all of those countries have had a part in invading Russia in the past, some of them multiple times.

                  The the original assertion that russia has never stopped invading places - I pointed out that it’s been invaded repeatedly (US/UK/French expeditions during the civil war, Barbarossa, Napoleon to name a few) - which doesn’t really line up with that image of an unstoppable invader.