Zelenskyj spiega perché l’Ucraina non si fiderà della Russia anche dopo la scomparsa di Putin

This is something I don’t think enough people understand. It’s easy to think Putin will be gone some day and things will change in Russia.

But will they?

Russia is, at it’s core, an imperial project. Almost throughout it’s entire existence, it has been at war and has subjugated it’s neighbours.

When a country and it’s citizens believe they have an imperial destiny, when they have no empathy for ‘lesser races’ as they see them, what will really change with a new leader?

Nothing changes in Russia. Read Leo Tolstoy from over a century ago.
” No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. The feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was stronger than hate. It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings, but it was such repulsion, disgust, and perplexity at the senseless cruelty of these creatures, that the desire to exterminate them — like the desire to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders, or wolves — was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation.”

Russia by its definition is a prison of nations. All the other internal regions were taken by force same way they are trying with Ukraine now. If it wasn’t an imperial prison, it would be 10% the size, so while it’s in its current borders, it can’t be trusted. 

He’s right. Russian people been ingrained from childhood that they’re superior to everyone else. It’s part of the culture to make fun of every nation in the world: Estonians talk slow and funny, Chukchi people are stupid, Europe is gay and weak, they have something for everyone. Until Russia admit their wrongdoings (like Germany did), they will keep regrouping and attacking next neighbor.