Why Putin Will Say Nyet

Putin said it, he will not allow Ukraine to become Anti-Russia, and that means he cannot allow Ukraine that has anti-Russian memory politics, anti-Russian language policy, anti-Russian foreign policy, and anti-Russian security policy. Because even if there isn’t a hot war, such Ukraine will be a danger to Russia. Modern wars are information wars and Russia cannot allow anti-Russia on its borders. What Kuzio calls Little Russia is precisely that Ukraine that is not anti-Russia.

Also the Russian public should not accept Ukraine that is anti-Russia. Ukraine that not Little Russia will inevitably become anti-Russia because as I said many times on this blog, Ukrainian nationalism is an attempt to say Ukraine is not Russia. Russia is that which the Ukrainian nationalist rejects. This is not because Ukrainians are distinct from Russians but because they want to be distinct from the Russians. There is a slight difference. People, who are truly different from the Russians do not have the need to assert that difference. The Czechs never say: “We are not Russians.” The Czechs have no problem with Russian language because it is not spoken in Czechia by most people.

Understand?

PS: Check out this Polish guy…

Lavrov also said that the Russian side was not contacted over the settlement of the Ukraine conflict by the incoming US administration, and it remains to be seen how this will all play out next year.