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The confessions keep on flowing:

An official in the Ukrainian region which Moscow claims to have annexed has said Russia should try to take territory that was formerly part of the Russian Empire "through the might" of weapons.

In September 2022, Zaporizhzhia was one of four Ukrainian regions that Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed, the others being Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk, although Moscow does not fully control any of them.

But the top Kremlin-installed official in the oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, said Russia should also have its eye on the Baltic states, as well as Poland and Finland, all five of which are NATO countries.

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In the interview shared by Russia watcher Julia Davis, Balitsky seemed ready to take on the alliance as he spoke of how the Russian Empire that ended with the 1917 revolution had "lost its footing" as well as "great numbers of people."

"I'm not even talking about territories. I understand that it includes Warsaw, Helsinki, also known as Helsingfors," he said.

The Russian Empire, which existed between 1721 and 1917, covered a vast territory. Finland was part of Russia's empire until it declared its independence after the Russian Revolution. The 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk saw revolutionary Russia renounce its claims on Polish territories.

Balitsky described how "all of the Baltics" were "all our lands, and our people live there," noting the Russian-speaking population in those countries.

"They were turned into a voiceless heard, they became trembling beasts," he said. "We have to correct this...through the might of Russian weapons.

"I don't believe in any diplomacy in this instance. Of course diplomacy always has to be present but I believe we can get it back only with the might of Russian weapons."

He said that Russia can "get our people back, the former subjects of the Russian Empire"

So, here we have it: Dumb Ass is more valuable than Kursk. What more evidence is needed that the whole point of starting the war was to grab some foreign land, not "defend some people from some Nazis"? Here, your own people are killed, raped, pillaged and turned into lampshades by horrible, HORRIBLE bloodthirsty Nazis for 3 weeks already and all you do is increase attacks on some tiny town in some foreign land?



And why the fuck have they provoked these horrible Nazis in the first place? Everybody was aware how real and extremely dangerous these Nazis were, but noooooo, the idiots just had to go ahead and poke that badger!!!!

Ukies invade Kursk? OK. Let's resurrect the ghosts of Napoleon and Hitler to advise against the futility of invading Russia.