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>>23339828
>They truly are the sovereign citizens of the world with no concept of borders.
I was reading a book about the second Chechen war and one of the Chechen commanders was describing the Russians as a godless people with no faith or nation. Then it reminded me of Stalin joking to the Yugoslav partisan commander Milovan Djilas about how German social democrats were late to a conference in the pre-revolutionary years because they had to get their tickets confirmed, and he was like, can you imagine Russians ever being like that? They'd just hop the border. Those crazy nastyass Russians just go wherever they want, will eat or drink practically anything, look one is even eating a cobra... ew!
https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg

>>23339844
>What Tucker is doing and what all journalists should be doing is trying to understand how Russia reached a point where they felt compelled to invade Ukraine.
I think something basically went wrong with the Russian political system which is not what Tucker is asking about. They don't have a durable system, and there's no clear program for succession of the president, who has been in power for more than 20 years. There was even a mercenary boss who went rogue and drove tanks toward the capital -- only in Russia! But I get the sense the ruling clique was facing a point where they needed to transition and they didn't know how to do it, they figure (or fear) that everything will fall apart (there's historical precedent for this) and they'll just get put up against the wall. Not because they really deserve it (because I doubt they believe they do) but because the people who replace them will be in a position where they can do that to them. Ukraine is a kleptocracy? Well look at Russia. They come across to me like the mafia, and so the situation escalates into this large-scale Eastern European mob war, and there's a big sorting out process between the people in the family and the people who are not. If you're not loyal, you get GTFO from Russia.

But it's not like they had a really good reason. But when people do something, or they feel like they have no choice, then they'll come up with a very good reason to justify whatever they were going to do anyways, and they can hire some philosopher like Dugin to come up with something. Most of the time, people like him (in different countries including the West) are working to rationalize or justify what the elites and leaders are doing.