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Per Dørup's avatar

And I wonder that Russia and China still have not established a closer military pact, where they strategically come to each others aid if attacked, just like the Nato pact. Russia alone can of course not manage Nato, including Turkey, and outside the alliance, Israel.

China is next. China should not incorporate Taiwan, but instead like Russia vs Ukraine demand that Taiwan become neutral without US military presence on the island.

The US military should also leave North Korea, Japan - and Eastern Europe, so people there can live in peace. But US imperialism will never do that without being met by a counterweight in the form of a military alliance between Russia and China. It is all about power as Realist theory describes it.

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Kurvingrad's avatar

China just need to play patience and avoid military conflict in any way. Time works in its favour. Besides, Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese are the same mob, like Koreans. Their conflict is purely superfluous. Utterly different from Ukraina where minority ethnic ukronazis are controlling majority of ukrainians and outlawing being an ethnic Russian

Ruskies cannot manage NATO terrorists but it works the other way round too. The conflict between them would mean an end of the world as we know it, and they know it hence the reluctance to engage directly (past the retorics and barking of lap dogs)

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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

Dr. Diesen explains points of contention between the West and Russia, but he has yet to explain the underlying irrational hatred of the West towards Russia. Until he or someone else can tackle that issue, absolutely none of this makes any sense, especially the incessant doubling down of western so-called leaders, along with their hysterical caricatures and paranoid projections.

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Kevin Mayes's avatar

"Russophobia" going way back into the Czarist era has been covered so many times by so many commentators on such diverse media that to recap here would be superfluous. Pretty much boils down to being a convenient bogeyman- not like us 'proper' Europeans- all that slanty-eyed dark hinterland. Russia's historic invincibility only adds to the almost supernatural mythos.

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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

Your attempt at explanation is simply circular reasoning... there's Russophobia because Russia is a boogeyman because Russians are dark and invincible because of Russophobia because...

A real explanation would go into a certain ethnic tribe that loves to perpetuate historical grievances and hatreds in order to exact revenge, along with a postmodernist mindset infecting Europe that zealously believes reality is socially constructed, leading to mindless doubling down of their narratives. Until and unless an analysis can peel back current context to explore underlying ideology and motivations, explanations such as yours can be dismissed as superficial.

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Heidi Victoria Såglund's avatar

From what I gattered from Jeffrey Sachs, the Russiahate stems from the Brits in the 1800’s. I believe a sort of competition or threat between the two as the Brits were themselves imperialists at the time, and saw the Russians as a big competitor, so close to China and India. I believe the hate was onesided though, just as it is today.

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Per Dørup's avatar

Russofobia is a simple continuation of the Cold War hatred of the Soviet Union and its attempt to create socialism starting with the 1917 revolution.

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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

That's nice. But it doesn't explain the current hatred towards a non-Communist Russia. You need to address the underlying reasons for such continuation. "Russophobia" is just a simplistic label, not an explanation.

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Per Dørup's avatar

Well, the US wants to control Russia - socialist or not - and its vast ressources, just like the US controls Europe, post Cold War Eastern Europe, Japan and South Korea. The same with China, even that China like Russia/ the Soviet Union, has never threatened the US and its (European) allies/vassals militarily. Following the break up of the Soviet Union, the US and its European vassals tried to gain control over post-Soviet/Russia in the 1990s, but failed because they misread Putin. Since then the official USA, EU and their media have been furious with Russia/Putin and have waged a hate campaign against Putin.

It is all about the continuation of the US hegemony. Making America great again as Trump expresses it.

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Kurvingrad's avatar

Maga is not quite the russiphobia.

Anglosphere just tries to remove any competition to its hegemony and it started no later than Ruskies expelling Turks from Balkans and inciting panslavic sentiment. This never ended. UK, then US... interestingly both are under control of one grop of one influential cabal so draw your own concluions

Maga is about remodelling US as a superpower in impending multipolar world. Because hegemony is over and Trump knows it. Time to divide the globe. The EU (the European Utopia) will be just a new US bitch in the scheme

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Christopher Jones's avatar

A great discussion and congratulations to the Judge and Professor Diesen.

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Ferenc Koncz's avatar

Another interesting addition to the "Chain of Events" that provoked the Russian intervention in Ukraine was the very unfair treatment of Russian ethnics in the Baltic States after their separation from the USSR in 1991. There are still Russian ethnics in the Baltics that did not receive citizenship in their places of living because they "did not qualify" (did not take language proficiency exams, etc.). Laughable, if it wasn't so tragically discriminative. And the EU stays quiet about it.

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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

Trump has no love for NATO or Europe, because they represent a vile globalist mindset, which is incompatible with MAGA and nationalism. That's also the impetus for the sudden interest in Greenland, kick Denmark and Europe in general out of the American continents as per the Monroe Doctrine.

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pepa65's avatar

Don't forget the resources, they'll be there for the resources.

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Per Dørup's avatar

Of course people in the US and EU know that the US was involved in the takeover of power in Ukraine in 2014. I refer to my comment in Diesen´s latest article: Nato´s expansionism...

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2033ICP's avatar

This is a very important story to tell a countless times.

Because of the “soft warfare” from NATO also called misinformation campaign or false propaganda to the population. The purpose is to spread the irrational and emotional narrative of hatred and negative emotions against the sceptical population and the enemy.

This is the whole point of warfare propaganda; keep the population in fear and hatred mode against an imaginary enemy and critical thinking and thinkers.

In this collective cognitive psychosis everyone should ideally be in fighting mode with or without a weapon.

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WMG's avatar

- I already watch the video !!!

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