Sarah Paine

Imperialism is really bad.

Well, I've just shown you.

that Russians were the greatest practitioners of imperialism of the 20th century.

And they're doing this right as Western imperialists are giving up their colonies.

And yet this big lie, the big fiction that the Russians are somehow nice guys, they're using democratic forms, like they don't eliminate Poland as a state, as the czars had done.

It's still called Poland, but it's a fiction that it's independent.

It's not.

And there's a fiction that they hold elections, but they're not democratic.

We already know the outcome.

And it's a dictatorship in reality, and they're just purging the place.

I mean, they're killing lots of Eastern Europeans.

So if you think Eastern Europeans don't remember this, they most certainly do.

And then there's a more regional template for how you do this.

I've already talked about ethnic cleansing.

They did that.

And then they tried moving countries, right?

Poland to the west.

Mongolia, I haven't talked about it.

It was to the east in the Chinese territory.

And then they want to take some stepping stones for later expansion.