No, because they weren’t defeated. The US started paying reparations to Russia immediately after the collapse of the USSR. The Budapest Memorandum disarmed Russia’s neighbors and positioned it to start invading the now utterly defenseless neighboring countries. Nothing was asked for in return. There was no accountability, no Nuremberg trials, nobody even had to lose their job. How is it losing if the side that supposedly lost the conflict immediately proceeds to feed you, arm you, and humor you in every way possible?
The first time I even heard that the USSR supposedly lost the Cold War was when I arrived in Canada. I found it hilarious then, and I find it even more hilarious now. Russia duped the West by temporarily removing the red banners and then using Western resources to wage the exact same war on the West but much more aggressively.
Compare this to when Germany lost WWII. That was real losing. Germany officially capitulated, it was split in two, Nuremberg trials were held, the denazification campaign took place. That’s how you lose a war. But if after “losing” you get coddled, given payouts, and armed against your neighbors, in what sense is that losing?
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Russians were big supporters of the Boers against the British. I suppose opposing superpowers has always been their thing.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n14/r.w.-johnson/rogue-s-paradise
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Russians think they should be the superpower. They’ve been in a rage for 300+ years that nobody recognizes this. Thank you for bringing the proof.
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“ussians were big supporters of the Boers against the British”
My impression is that they hate the British Empire even more than America. There’s a whole genre of speculative fiction in russia (financed by the government) about russians going back in time and destroying the British Empire before it got started, or assassinating Churchill sometimes with the help of “Comrade Hitler” who’s on the russians side…(my idea is that current woke right hatred of Churchill was largely or entirely created/funded by russia).
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I’ve been thinking this, too. They do have an obsession with the British Empire. All of these clumsy theories about Churchill, I already heard them all years ago on Russian TV. To me, they are soporific because they are old. But some poor souls think it’s some sort of a new and subversive thing.
It’s like “oooh, I’m polyamorous. That’s a new, transgressive identity.” As if every language in the world hasn’t had a name for this behavior since language was invented.
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