"Conquest" sounds rather like an euphemism in this case. Independently of what word one uses to describe what is happening or what happened in Japan some decades ago, it does not erase the fact there were incalculable damaged to those who were participant in the war/conquest.
It sounds cynical to try to sugar-coat events like that affirming they are path to progress, when in reality they only mean destruction and loss of innocent people trapped in the cross fire.
Topic: World order in Russian (Read 65 times)
^^^ Not through war. Through conquest. Much of Japan's success came about because of the US conquest in WW2.
Having abandoned the imperial ideology, the peoples of Germany and Japan have achieved enormous success, leaving the victorious country, Russia, far behind. The peoples of Europe understood that prosperity should be sought not in conquering a neighbor, but in free labor. Today, borders in Europe are not an obstacle and, being only symbolic, ensure prosperity and peaceful coexistence.
Russia has its own vision of the world and how it is supposed to work and move, which is incompatible with the values harbored in the West. It is the same with China.
Every nation can see the world at its own discretion, but this does not mean that it can dictate to other nations through war.
Having abandoned the imperial ideology, the peoples of Germany and Japan have achieved enormous success, leaving the victorious country, Russia, far behind. The peoples of Europe understood that prosperity should be sought not in conquering a neighbor, but in free labor. Today, borders in Europe are not an obstacle and, being only symbolic, ensure prosperity and peaceful coexistence.
And what is the reason Japan is considered to be a successful and developed country, if they do not allow the flow of free labor into their borders yet?
To me it is not much about the flow of people/labor into their land, but rather all of this has much to do with the culture of the country in question and the way they approach politics, the economy and their relation with their neighbors.
In the case of Russia, I could alledge there is an important percentage of the Population in that country who still believe in the Soviet dream and mourn the fall of the Soviet Union, even to this day.
The pursue on conquering former Soviet territories like a way to keep those people dreaming with the possibility of a comeback, even though Russia does not longer embrace socialism. They are closer to facism than an communist model, because they live a mixture of capitalism and authoritarian government.
Russia has its own vision of the world and how it is supposed to work and move, which is incompatible with the values harbored in the West. It is the same with China.
Alik Bakhshi
World order in Russian
On the Internet, in response to my article “Who are they Racists” (1), a certain Russian supporter of Putin, in a commentary, quite openly explained the need for w ars, through which Russia seized the lands of other peoples:
«If you are even superficially familiar with world history, you should know that wars between the so-called civilized peoples and tribes of small nations have always been fought everywhere. Why do you blame only Russia for this? Moreover, these accusations are completely unfair. Russia was forced to wage these wars because these small and such peace-loving peoples constantly raided the Russian outskirts, killed, robbed, took Russian people captive and then sold them in the slave markets of the settlements of such “sweet and peace-loving” mountaineers. Europeans were not attacked by small nations. The Europeans themselves traveled beyond the “far distant seas” to find and rob these peoples. And after that you are indignant at Russia’s aggressiveness, but calmly accept the aggressiveness of the Europeans. Is this fair? »
A small clarification, it was not the mountaineers of the Caucasus who came down from the mountains, but the Russians who came to them in the mountains and not at all with bread and salt.(2)
The commentary presents the great-power worldview of the Russian people, and Putin is a sought-after guide who brings this worldview to life. How can one not recall the famous expression of Count Joseph de Maistre from 1811: “Every people has the government that it deserves.” What is noteworthy is that the count had in mind the Russian people.
I have provided the full text of the comment. What an accurate justification for the Evil emanating from Russia and its people! The trouble with the Russian people is that they live not by the law, but by justice, and everyone has their own justice, while the law is for everyone. In Russia, according to a well-known saying, “the law is that the drawbar: wherever you turn, that’s where it goes.” In this “justice”, which justifies a war with the aim of conquering another people, the denseness of the Russian view of the world order emerges, and the Russian people live in the past, not keeping up with the development of civilization. What Putin is doing today is essentially the steps of Hitler. (3) Having abandoned the imperial ideology, the peoples of Germany and Japan have achieved enormous success, leaving the victorious country, Russia, far behind. The peoples of Europe understood that prosperity should be sought not in conquering a neighbor, but in free labor. Today, borders in Europe are not an obstacle and, being only symbolic, ensure prosperity and peaceful coexistence.
Colonialism for European countries is a thing of the past. Russia, just as it lagged behind the West by 150-200 years, continues to lag without reducing this gap in the least, and no war will help this lag. In our time, it is not the presence of colonies in a country that determines the well-being of its people, but the ability of the people to work rationally in conditions of freedom, under the protection of laws that are equal for all citizens without exception. A striking example of this: Switzerland, a country that has never had colonies. Once, while in Switzerland, I watched a farmer mow the grass, wiping his sweaty brow. But he could, if he wanted, hire an emigrant, but he immediately thought that if the farmers hired emigrants instead of themselves, then Switzerland would certainly become like some African country. I have seen Swiss cheese makers and glassblowers work, but I have never seen emigrants among them. You cannot build a country with someone else's hands. Or Holland, which was a colonial power, did it become poorer with the loss of its colonies? Of course, the national mentality plays an important role here. If in the West the welfare of a neighbor causes a desire to achieve it, then in a Russian it causes an irresistible desire to destroy it. I always turn to the experience of Finland, once a provincial colony of Russia, where poor Chukhonians lived. But as soon as the Finns achieved freedom from the Russians, a country that has neither oil, nor gas, nor gold, there is nothing at all that Russia is rich in, except for people who know how to work, it became the first country in terms of prosperity. The Finns treasured this freedom, and when in 1939 the Russians treacherously attacked Finland in order to return the Finns to their empire, the entire people, including women, stood up as an insurmountable wall for the invaders. Today a similar situation is observed in Ukraine.
The Russians with their “Russian world” are bringing destruction and decline. One of the reasons that prompted the Russians to attack Ukraine was to prevent Ukrainians from living better. The same reason lies in Russia's threats to the former Baltic colonies. Azerbaijan, which became independent and, as a result, gained the opportunity to manage its natural resources, achieved a lot in the field of economic development, and Baku turned into a beautiful city that embodied the spirit of East and West. One must think that the countries of former Russian Central Asia are not eager to return to the fold of the empire. Today, Russia with its “Russian world”, which the revanchist Putin dreams of reproducing in the former colonies, is avoided like the plague. The “Russian world order” that Putin wants to present as something new is in fact a return to the past.
1. Who are they rashists? https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/38049.html
2. Chechnya and the road to power, or the revival of the empire according to Putin. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/2151.html
3. The ghost of Hitler is haunting Europe. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/38049.html
02/10/2023
World order in Russian
On the Internet, in response to my article “Who are they Racists” (1), a certain Russian supporter of Putin, in a commentary, quite openly explained the need for w ars, through which Russia seized the lands of other peoples:
«If you are even superficially familiar with world history, you should know that wars between the so-called civilized peoples and tribes of small nations have always been fought everywhere. Why do you blame only Russia for this? Moreover, these accusations are completely unfair. Russia was forced to wage these wars because these small and such peace-loving peoples constantly raided the Russian outskirts, killed, robbed, took Russian people captive and then sold them in the slave markets of the settlements of such “sweet and peace-loving” mountaineers. Europeans were not attacked by small nations. The Europeans themselves traveled beyond the “far distant seas” to find and rob these peoples. And after that you are indignant at Russia’s aggressiveness, but calmly accept the aggressiveness of the Europeans. Is this fair? »
A small clarification, it was not the mountaineers of the Caucasus who came down from the mountains, but the Russians who came to them in the mountains and not at all with bread and salt.(2)
The commentary presents the great-power worldview of the Russian people, and Putin is a sought-after guide who brings this worldview to life. How can one not recall the famous expression of Count Joseph de Maistre from 1811: “Every people has the government that it deserves.” What is noteworthy is that the count had in mind the Russian people.
I have provided the full text of the comment. What an accurate justification for the Evil emanating from Russia and its people! The trouble with the Russian people is that they live not by the law, but by justice, and everyone has their own justice, while the law is for everyone. In Russia, according to a well-known saying, “the law is that the drawbar: wherever you turn, that’s where it goes.” In this “justice”, which justifies a war with the aim of conquering another people, the denseness of the Russian view of the world order emerges, and the Russian people live in the past, not keeping up with the development of civilization. What Putin is doing today is essentially the steps of Hitler. (3) Having abandoned the imperial ideology, the peoples of Germany and Japan have achieved enormous success, leaving the victorious country, Russia, far behind. The peoples of Europe understood that prosperity should be sought not in conquering a neighbor, but in free labor. Today, borders in Europe are not an obstacle and, being only symbolic, ensure prosperity and peaceful coexistence.
Colonialism for European countries is a thing of the past. Russia, just as it lagged behind the West by 150-200 years, continues to lag without reducing this gap in the least, and no war will help this lag. In our time, it is not the presence of colonies in a country that determines the well-being of its people, but the ability of the people to work rationally in conditions of freedom, under the protection of laws that are equal for all citizens without exception. A striking example of this: Switzerland, a country that has never had colonies. Once, while in Switzerland, I watched a farmer mow the grass, wiping his sweaty brow. But he could, if he wanted, hire an emigrant, but he immediately thought that if the farmers hired emigrants instead of themselves, then Switzerland would certainly become like some African country. I have seen Swiss cheese makers and glassblowers work, but I have never seen emigrants among them. You cannot build a country with someone else's hands. Or Holland, which was a colonial power, did it become poorer with the loss of its colonies? Of course, the national mentality plays an important role here. If in the West the welfare of a neighbor causes a desire to achieve it, then in a Russian it causes an irresistible desire to destroy it. I always turn to the experience of Finland, once a provincial colony of Russia, where poor Chukhonians lived. But as soon as the Finns achieved freedom from the Russians, a country that has neither oil, nor gas, nor gold, there is nothing at all that Russia is rich in, except for people who know how to work, it became the first country in terms of prosperity. The Finns treasured this freedom, and when in 1939 the Russians treacherously attacked Finland in order to return the Finns to their empire, the entire people, including women, stood up as an insurmountable wall for the invaders. Today a similar situation is observed in Ukraine.
The Russians with their “Russian world” are bringing destruction and decline. One of the reasons that prompted the Russians to attack Ukraine was to prevent Ukrainians from living better. The same reason lies in Russia's threats to the former Baltic colonies. Azerbaijan, which became independent and, as a result, gained the opportunity to manage its natural resources, achieved a lot in the field of economic development, and Baku turned into a beautiful city that embodied the spirit of East and West. One must think that the countries of former Russian Central Asia are not eager to return to the fold of the empire. Today, Russia with its “Russian world”, which the revanchist Putin dreams of reproducing in the former colonies, is avoided like the plague. The “Russian world order” that Putin wants to present as something new is in fact a return to the past.
1. Who are they rashists? https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/38049.html
2. Chechnya and the road to power, or the revival of the empire according to Putin. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/2151.html
3. The ghost of Hitler is haunting Europe. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/38049.html
02/10/2023
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