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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Wed Dec 28, 2022, 03:19 PM Dec 2022

In their propaganda, Russia reveals their TRUE fear: Russia ripping itself apart in a civil war.

First you need to understand the russian mentality with regards to the Soviet Union.
To them, the Soviet Union was the russian empire. Every single territory of the Soviet Union WAS Russia, even though the population consisted of dozens of non-russian ethnicities.

So when the Soviet Union was split up into various countries, the other ethnicities saw this as their chance at independence, but the Russians saw it as a hostile foreign power breaking their country into pieces. And the Russians still hold a grudge against these other ethnicities for "betraying" Russia and STAYING independent instead of immediately and happily returning under Russia's rule.

And this fear/trauma is still alive today, with a very popular conspiracy-theory being that the West wants to break up the Russian Federation into smaller countries, just like they did with the Soviet Union.



So, when Medvedjev predicts that the EU will collapse... when he predicts that Germany will turn itself into the Fourth Reich and invade neighbouring countries like Poland... when he predicts that France will declare war on Germany...
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/star-rising-kremlin-russias-medvedev-predicts-war-west-2022-12-27/

This is projection. It reveals what Medvedjev is thinking about: A major political power consisting of multiple ethnicities (Russia), falling apart in civil war.

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In their propaganda, Russia reveals their TRUE fear: Russia ripping itself apart in a civil war. (Original Post) DetlefK Dec 2022 OP
I also think it is Putin's goal to break up Europe/NATO and the US. Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #1
Holy crap !!!!!!! secondwind Dec 2022 #2
As it should. 2naSalit Dec 2022 #3
And therefore..... Lovie777 Dec 2022 #4

Irish_Dem

(81,260 posts)
1. I also think it is Putin's goal to break up Europe/NATO and the US.
Wed Dec 28, 2022, 03:24 PM
Dec 2022

Damage and destroy any unity and alliance.

2naSalit

(102,784 posts)
3. As it should.
Wed Dec 28, 2022, 04:28 PM
Dec 2022

Russia has no call to be seen as a nation anymore. On the global stage they are a barbaric pariah that should be liquidated for the benefit of all other life on earth.

Lovie777

(22,971 posts)
4. And therefore.....
Wed Dec 28, 2022, 05:32 PM
Dec 2022

why not deflect such by advertising on social media, approved by shithole number two ....

Civil war and the west.

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