04-20-2006, 06:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-20-2006, 06:38 PM by Occhidiangela.)
Ashock,Apr 20 2006, 12:11 PM Wrote:I'm not sure I'm understanding you. True original russians were Vikings. What we have now is a mix of that blood with that of the Mongols.The point I was whittling away at was the fallacious "pick a conqueror/resident of a land -- Mongols in Russia, Mexicans/Spanish (over the Indians) in the New World -- and arbitrarily set that straw man up as so-called legitimate residents" in lieu of who has, via the usual political processes, possessin and title in the here and now. History moves forward. You either shape it to your vision, or someone else will shape it to theirs. There is no absolute stability. There is relative stability, at best, or varying degrees of chaos.
I won't touch the rest of this though.
-A
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That the contemporary Russian Empire shrank a bit when all of those Farbakistans seceded from the CIS, post Cold War, has less to do with "legitimacy" and more to do with blood and soil at the local level.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete