Empire-Building always sets a people back. For Putin to send tanks and troops to invade hapless Ukraine proper is the subjugate all peoples involved, the conquerors as well as the conquered.
Empire-building and empire-maintenance require that the masters and the subjects are all ensalved in a huge, vast-ranging series of aggregate groups, institutions and bureaucracies. There is little room left for individuals and individuating.
The Russians are a talented, handsome people, but these collectivist empires and authoritarian governments have sickened the people legally, spiritually and morally.
If ever a people need a constitutional republic with free market affluence and plenty of liberty for each Russian to do her own thing,, Russia needs this break badly.
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