>>508802924 (OP)The Tatar Yoke. Some people have written extensively about this, others have made really good video essays. Research Tauride/Taurida and the poems about it. Crimea is an obsession for the Russian ruling class, not just for strategic purposes or its Russian majority. It is unironically viewed on the same level as the Holy Grail. The Tatar Yoke, or as I like to call it, Mongol Stockholm Syndrome, has infected the mind of the Russian leadership. If we’re being honest, “the West” doesn’t mean the Anglosphere and Western Europe, it means all of white civilization. The Russian leadership do not view themselves as a part of this. When they talk about “the west” this, “the west” that, you think it’s a political dispute with Western Europe and its settler colonies, but it’s not. The brutality of Turko-Mongol rule did serious damage to the collective psyche of the Russian elite. The amount of little things in Russia that are done differently, what we may call novelties, that have origins in the times of the Golden Horde, but together, have an outsized impact on the country and region as a whole, is shocking. Russia’s most recent hope was Catherine, but beyond that every leader has embraced this Mongol psychology in one way or another, some obviously more extreme than others. The phrase spoken by some well-known Russian I can’t remember the name of, I believe in the 1700s, of “if the West doesn’t like what we’re doing, then it must be something good” is unironically official policy, not just a smartass joke. It’s tragic, because the Russian people are our brothers, but they’re mislead from a young age to believe we are fundamentally different. I am not anti-Russia, but in fact pro-Russia. For that reason, I don’t want them to attack Western countries, and their government must be obliterated. There are Russian nationalists who are aware of this. I had a great conversation with one on here just the other day.
