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With may be a single exception of North Caucasus (specifically "ДИЧ" - Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia) this is just false. There are *some* Russian ethnonationalists who argue for letting these three regions out. There is about zero who want general decolonisation Image
"ДИЧ" abbreviation which stands for Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is indeed popular in the Russian far right discourse. It refers to these three mountainous regions whom some want to see out, and some want to see under a régime du sabre Image
While there is limited support for "solving the ДИЧ question", one or another way, there is exactly zero support for letting out anyone else. In fact Russian ethnonationalists are very suspicious of either ethnic and "Russian" regionalism, seeing them as a separatist threat
Assuming that Russian ethnonationalists would like to see Russia smaller is just delusional. They would like to see it very much larger. The fact that they view certain regions (9,10,11) as highly problematic does not contradict their expansionist dreams at all Image

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9h
For context: that's how the most popular Russian ethnonationalist media of the recent decades "Sputnik and Pogrom" pictured their dream - "Russia for Russians". Very decolonizing, indeed

Honestly, I am appalled to see what can pass for expertise in modern Western academia Image
NB: This is not only about Russia. That's about absolute contempt of too many Western intellectual circles towards the public imagination of non-Western countries, Russia included. This problem lies so deep that I am not sure whether it can be fixed or not
If you have just a bit of empathy towards the Russian ethnonationalists, the idea that they want to make their empire *smaller* would strike you as absolutely improbable. Even when they all agree that certain regions are a liability in each and every respect, the idea of ...
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17h
Barely any Slavs before Slavic invasions, barely any Indo-Europeans before Indo-European invasion

The problem with your argument is not that it is wrong. The problem is that it is so universally true that it can be arbitrarily weaponised against anyone
Arguments are overrated. "Fighting the invader" argument is universally true -> can be used against anyone -> is being successfully used by victors against losers

Should Greek win, they're gonna cleanse Turkish invaders

Should Turks win, they're gonna cleanse Greek invaders
If you don't see it, it just means that you're clueless about the agenda of the "other side". Turks weaponised Anatolian nativism against the Greeks just as successfully as Greeks theirs. One could even say that Anatolian nativism was just mirroring (and copying) the Greek one
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Dec 8
I noticed that the American discourse tends to hugely exaggerate the role of ethnolinguistic factor as the driving force of state/nation-formation. Which is kinda ironic, considering how the US emerged in the first place
And since American internal debates largely shape the global discourse, these Wilsonian lenses become the default way to look at the state/nation formation all around the world
I would say that contemporary American way to look at the state/nation formation is a blend of Wilsonian inertia and externalisation of modern American identity politics. A projection of internal American political games to the outer world
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Dec 7
National Divorce

Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the breakup of the empire. In this thread I will outline a model of how this process could look like🧵 Image
Russia is the last European colonial empire that remains largely intact. It was a relatively small polity whose enormous territorial expansion started for real only in the 16th c. This time frame largely overlaps with the establishment of the first European overseas empires Image
Those who doubt colonial nature of Russia point out to how different it was from what is now seen as the epitome of British colonialism - the British empire. Indeed, Russian colonialism was very dissimilar from the Anglo one, but often strikingly similar to the Iberoamerican Image
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Dec 6
I prioritise feedback over outreach. There is no way I can get a quality conversation without blocking a few thousand people. Valuable comments, ideas, references would drown in the ocean of emotional dumping. Therefore, I need to isolate myself from the latter to see the former
I am purposefully looking for comments like this: that's an actual dialogue (that I hoped for) and a valuable input. I learnt something I didn't know before. If I don't block emotional dumpers, comments of value will be buried under the mountains of garbage -> I won't see them Image
I know many are proud of being direct and straightforward online. But the thing with straightforwardness is that it doesn't scale up. It may work perfectly in one on one dialogue. If there are 10 ppl around, you probably won't share every detail of how you think and feel out loud
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Dec 5
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