This will become Russia's new Brest Litovsk peace agreement and their next 1917 style state collapse. It is already their new Afghanistan or Chechen War round 1, but none of that does the scale of Russian losses any justice.


"The communists were already bound to their leader by faith and fear. I took a special kind of mind to truly believe that the worse things appeared, the better they actually were. Such reasoning went by the name dialectics, but by this time that word, (despite its proud descent from the Greeks through Hegel and Marx) meant little more than the psychic capacity to adjust one's own perceptions to the changing expressions of Stalin's will." Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, page 65

Gareth Jones talked about the "pure primitive worship" of Hitler in 1933 shortly after his election at a rally in Frankfurt

It takes a special mind for such attempts to destroy the standards of thoughts with one maniacal claim after the other indeed.