Sergey Mardan said that Putin’s Russia doesn’t “dare define” deeper imperialistic ambitions, even though a Russian general called the Ukraine war a “stepping stone” to a wider conflict with Europe.
by Kyiv Post | September 30, 2023,
Sergey Mardan. Photo from open sources
A Russian state TV host said that his country is “rediscovering” its true purpose to again be an expansionist empire.
“I am a part of an empire-making nation. That made the biggest empire in existence to date,” the host, Sergey Mardan, said on his show, “Mardan,” following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s signing of a law on Wednesday creating the “Day of Unification.”
Putin established the Day of Unification on Sept. 30 to celebrate Moscow’s illegal annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions of Ukraine.
“Everyone understands that this list is incomplete. For now, Russia doesn’t dare to define what it really has in mind and what it’s really all about,” Mardan said.
In an interview with Russia-1, Russian General Andrey Mordvichev had made similar comments, saying that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just a “stepping stone” to a wider conflict with Europe.
“The war will persist for an extended period. Discussing specific dates doesn’t make sense… When it comes to Eastern Europe and what needs to be done, it will certainly require more time,” the general said.
Russia continues to call its full-scale invasion of Ukraine a “special military operation” to rid Ukraine of so-called “Nazis.” However, Moscow is simply being cautious with its terminology, Mardan said.
“You can use the most watered-down, meaningless or meaningful definitions,” Mardan said. “You can call it denazification or demilitarization. Call it whatever you want! Everyone knows what it really means.”
Mardan said that while the “Day of Unification” holiday will be frightening for other nations, it will be celebrated by Russians.
“Pointless existence is the worst existential horror. There are some nations whose existence is pointless,” he said.
Mardan said that for him and other Russians, it’s strange to hear the Western media report that Putin wishes to restore the Soviet Union to its former glory when the goal is much larger.
“For anyone who understands the retrospective of our national consciousness for the last 1,000 years. For us, the restoration of the USSR sounds a bit funny. What Soviet Union? Wake up!”
“We can rewind it by 800 years more,” Mardan said – referring to a time when the modern nations of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Poland, and Georgia were part of the Russian Empire – and Russia was on a seemingly continuous path of expansion.
The host’s comments come in the wake of a report by a United Nations investigative team, which found that Russian state media rhetoric could amount to incitement of genocide.
Among the more recent of the regularly inflammatory statements coming out of Russian propaganda, was one by political commentator Elena Markosyan on Sept. 2:
“Every [Ukrainian] face is a pig snout. Every action is a joke. It resulted in the country’s degradation. I have no hatred for these people. I have no pity for them either. I look at it as a doctor. A doctor has to cure a sickness,” she said.
Pure nazi genocide rants. By the lowest vermin ever to breathe oxygen.
Advice for Ukraine from a Vietnam perspective:
Ly Thanh:
Let me tell you Ukrainians some stories about Vietnam. Wherever the Mongol empire’s hooves went, the nation collapsed, sweeping from Asia to Europe. Even Kiev Rus (Russia and Ukraine today also failed.) Even China failed when facing the Mongol empire. However, when the Mongol empire advanced to Vietnam, they were defeated by the Vietnamese, not just once but three times. The Chinese moved south to fight Vietnam for thousands of years, thousands of battles, but always failed. The French fought Vietnam for 100 years, but ultimately failed and were knocked out at Dien Bien Phu. Next were the Japanese, bitterly defeated in Vietnam during World War II. Next were the Americans, defeated by Vietnam after 30 years of invasion. The Vietnamese people have much less population, weapons and resources than the US, France, China, Mongolia, Japan… a lot. Do you know what makes us successful? That is, we do not aim to win as quickly as possible, we cannot win against stronger opponents in a few years. We aim to drive the invaders out of the country with the fewest casualties, which is the result we want. We strengthen guerrilla warfare, do not directly confront or rush into opponents. We assassinate everyone who works for the foreign government, from office workers to high-ranking employees. Spreading fear to weaken the puppet government of foreign invaders continuously, no one dares to work with foreign invaders anymore. We wear down the spirit and will of the invaders until they cannot stand it anymore. In addition, Vietnamese people do not fight for salary, we do not fight for contracts, we fight for the survival of the country, just like Israelis. We earn our own food individually, we wear civilian clothes, not military uniforms. Makes the enemy not know when they will die. So, if you Ukrainians, instead of fighting for your children and grandchildren and the survival of your country, fight instead for wages, you will soon fail. For strong opponents, strengthen guerrilla warfare, combining sabotage from within Russia and within Crimea. Weakening the government of fascist Russia. Prepare well the weapons and spirit of all citizens for the war that will last decades. Because a weak country cannot defeat a strong country as quickly as in the movies.
The big advantages that Vietnam has over Ukraine are their jungles. Ukraine has lots of wide open landscapes. You cannot hide a partisan army in such places. And, if we had the type of support that equals to Ukrainian courage and determination, the enemy would already have been defeated.
I especially liked this passage :
“We assassinate everyone who works for the foreign government, from office workers to high-ranking employees. Spreading fear to weaken the puppet government of foreign invaders continuously, no one dares to work with foreign invaders anymore.”
Ukraine are on it!
Now they must step it up. Especially on those nazi scum strutting around Crimea as if they own it.
I think that after conducting so many successful strikes on both military targets and individual scumbags, they are forced to look over their shoulders more than ever before, and probably don’t feel very cozy each time they’re holding a meeting somewhere. I can imagine the nervousness in everyone’s being and twitching every time an unusual noise is heard. Glancing out the windows to see if a Storm Shadow or HIMARS is approaching might’ve become second nature to them.
Mafia land is a carbon copy of Nazi Germany. The original Nazis also had huge wet dreams, and we know how all that ended.
I notice that when things are not going well for mafia land, they trot out Medvedev and other genocidal maniacs to spew their hatred. No talk of failed counteroffensives has come from Putler for weeks.
Big words from a little man. The speed in which russia are moving, they’ll be back in Moscow before they get anywhere near Kyiv, never mind expanding into Europe.