TRYING TO UNDERSTAND UKRAINIAN SELF PERCEPTION Ukrainians are Europeans -and- Mu

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND UKRAINIAN SELF PERCEPTION

Ukrainians are Europeans -and- Muscovites are Mongols.

Ukraine is a borderland whose people want to choose to stay with Christian Europe instead of be captured by the Muscovite Mongols.

The Muscovites adopted the “Rus” viking name as an act of self-legitimization, but in fact they are not Rus (Vikings). They are Muscovites.

Despite modernization attempts by the nobility (St Petersburg),

They think and act as mongols.

80% of Ukrainians self identify as european.

80% of Russians (Muscovites) identify as asian.

MY POSITION

We assume because they look like us and are tangibly christian that they are just misguided eastern europeans. But they are an amalgamation of people trapped between europe on the north, muslims in the south, asians in the east, and they have adopted whatever is useful from each competing polity.

We had hoped, Gorbachev had hoped, that we would unite the circumpolar people: europe and russia again.

I hoped the same.

But russians always make the wrong decision.

Another 10 years and russia would have civilized and owned europe.

America would have been unwelcome and unnecessary on the continent with russian warriors to protect them, and russian resources to make use of.

The western right could have conquered the western left and saved the west.

But russians always make the wrong choice.

The long term is never possible for them.

Only the short term.