ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

They really are very pretty, I’d like to see the forests

Do you think that someone invoking the highly mythologized spectre of their millennium-dead predecessors amounts to anything but an embarassing admission that they themselves have accomplished little of note?

Jesus christ, I thought not shutting up about your “viking blood” was just a white American thing

I think Russia is western Europe’s One That Got Away. They never got to totally subjugate it’s resources and they never got to carve up it’s land, and now that they’re weaker they’re worried, like all empires in decline, that those they tried to fuck over are gonna fuck them over. Obviously there’s a ton of material historical entanglements in play, but I think just in terms of like, mass psychology, projection plays a role.

just now realizing that I missed this comm actually