#13, RE: Also, For the Record
Posted by Prince Charon on Apr-19-14 at 11:05 PM
In response to message #9
>>I'm not saying the modern-day Ukrainians don't have plenty of latitude >>for grievance there, obviously, nor that the modern Russian attitude >>that one can wind that tape back has any validity whatever, but >>terminologically, if you go back far enough... > >"Far enough" being just shy of 100 years. Ukraine only starts to come >into being in 1917, (before that it was part of Russia, the Ottoman >Empire, Poland, Lithuania, the Khanate of the Crimea or the Khanate of >the Golden Horde, depending on location and year). Hence Putin's claim that Ukraine 'is not a state'. Yeah, the Ukrainians have good reasons to be resentful and angry. '... some damn fool thing...' "They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on." -- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington
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