This morning an electronic billboard on my way to work is displaying this Putin quote: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere.” pic.twitter.com/K7q5wUPHWN
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) January 15, 2024
They are all really against borders, eh? As true in the US as it is in Russia.
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Clarissa's Blog 
How can the boundless narcissism of one man be allowed to run roughshod over the lives of millions of human beings?
I just cannot understand how so many powerful people in the so-called free world can be so blind to the dangers of letting pathological narcissists continue to rule without restraints, in Russia as in China, in Iran as in Gaza.
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“How can the boundless narcissism of one man”
It’s not ‘one man’…. interact with russians online and they all share his assumptions. I just had an interaction with a russian (living in Canada) who thinks that Estonia requiring russians to learn the national language is some kind of terrible human rights violation and wants putin to invade….
Many such cases! to quote hwmnbn….
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The Russians who escaped from the country to avoid the draft started making a major stink about their children going to school in the new countries and being educated in the languages of those countries. They believe that separate Russian-speaking classes should be established for their kids. Mind you, they could organize such classes themselves. Or homeschool. But no, the expectation is that the taxpayers of receiving countries should provide free education in Russian. The sense of entitlement is just completely out there. The idea that an immigrant has to adapt and assimilate doesn’t cross their minds. And then they complain that nobody is happy to have them in the new countries.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
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You are right, Cliff, it was a momentary aberration on my part. It’s just that I tend to forget that the “russkiy mir” mindframe is still very much alive even today.
Thanks for the salutary reminder.
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Vast majority of the countries are run by narcissists and sociopaths…
As far as the real meaning of that Russian billboard – it is “all that ever belonged to the Russian Empire / SU is ours”, only the packaging looks neoliberal.
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