Ukraine will take steps to research, publicize, and protect the histories of Ukrainians living in parts of modern-day Russia that have been historically inhabited by Ukrainians, according to a decree signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Jan. 22.
That would be John Stuart, if he ever decided to run for office. And holy fuck, he'd kill it. I mean, he says he doesn't want to do it, but he knows more about policy, politics, and how the game is played than most politicians.
I get it, I wouldn't want to either, but daaaaamn. He'd rip conservative a politics about 5 new assholes.
I think at this point it'd be Colbert since he's still got his show
Plus, having a president who can wipe the floor with everyone else in Tolkien literary discourse would be the biggest foreign policy flex since bretton woods
What’s happening in the US isn’s even considered conservatism anymore. It’s the MAGA cult. I am definitely left, but conservatives don’t always need to be bad. It just so happens that the Republican Party has filled itself with people serving themselves and not the people who voted for them. Fingers crossed things go well this November.
I agree. They were always the worse option in my lifetime when looking in the generic but individually some were and option and was a good hedge against radical left things to help keep things centered. Again that being said the us has always been to right to me.
The problem is determining what from that period constitutes "Ukrainian" or "Russian". The old "Rus peoples" were a lot of relatively different yet also similar groups, that homogenize and heterogenize across time depending on different political and social conditions, which at a certain point in time during the modern age some intellectuals try to categorize and end up reaching some sort of consensus with "Russian", "Byelorussian" and "Ukrainian".
In the end, forgetting this kind of nuance invites people who are a little shaky on the head to come up with pan-nationalist narratives that justify some sort of anachronistic imperialism. It's already bad enough that Putin's Z-morons are trying to appropriate Ukrainian identity as a breakaway of their own to justify ethnic cleansing, let's not have some Ukrainians that try and do the same but in reverse.
The Russian imperialist narrative needs Kiev to be part of it precisely because that's the origin of the very identity it stole. Without it there's no grand history, no Orthodox legitimacy, just the history of being a Mongolian vassal.
This is about combatting against Kremlin's expansionist propaganda, so I see it as an active effort to promote their own cultural and historical legacy.
Exactly and frankly it's only right to point out this cultural heritage even if obviously Ukraine doesn't want to conquer these territories. Especially since Russia actively tries to rewrite cultural history about it. And that's by no means limited to people with Ukrainian roots in Russia but they actively rewrite Russian history to discredit dozens of cultural minorities. Very similar to China's ongoing "project" to make China as "Han Chinese" as possible.