Agent23
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Well, you can see for yourself, Poland went to change the ruler of Rus, it did not try to snatch lands from it, except for the important Czerwienskie castles. The country from which we wanted to snatch lands was Germany, and those lands we wanted to take were Polabia, which is today's East Germany.
Where is yours here, Poland tried to conquer Kievan Rus?
Trying to put in a vassal/somebody who owes you in as the ruler of another country is even worse than trying to snatch some lands tbh.
As I said, making some country subservient to you via vassalage can be worse than just taking territory.Poland was in no way interested in conquering it. If she was interested, she would have just done it, because it was easier than wars with the Empire.
Poland going east was not until the fourteenth century, Kazimierz III the Great. And even then, the conquest of Red Ruthenia was supposed to be part of an attempt to retake Silesia by taking over an important trade route going through those lands.
Besides, look at the borders of Bolesław I's conquests, somehow they all headed west, not east. And Boleslaw a kind and courteous man was not. He wanted to conquer and plunder.
let us see, they get the rebellious territories that want to be part of Russia and that have been historically Russian before Stalin and Lenin and Khrushchev decided to fuck with the maps as well as protecting a major naval base they had in the Crimea and that is important to their interests, they also counter the coup-spawned US/western proxy and keep dual use ABM sites from being placed on their doorstep.As for the second, let's ask a different question. What does Russia have to gain by invading Ukraine? If Russia had been more patient it would have gotten what it wanted, NATO was dying. The EU was falling apart, if it had waited another 5 years it could have seized Ukraine without the world against it. And so Putin achieved what is a Russian nightmare.
A brilliant strategist.
As to Putin being a brilliant strategist, well his hand was kinda forced, since the Russians wouldn't have been happy with the loss of Crimea and ethnic cleansing in Donbass.
Him not going in back in 2014 is something the right/actual dissidents over there have been raging for quite a while now.
Check out some Telegram channels that are critical of their government, like Strelkov's.
What ran Russia until recently was an alliance of Siloviki and Liberals, with a lot of them wanting to eat their Fua Gras and keep their resort homes all over Club Med.
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