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I do wonder how much our gas import from Russia is helping us keep the peace.

I'm really afraid that high gas prices would be the tipping point when US and EU would turn from funding internal revolution in Russia (figures like Navalny) to a hot war.

Europe always needed and wanted our resources. Just read German documents from WWII: only part of it was hatred and desire to genocide Russians. The most serious motivation was to plunder Russian natural resources.

We don't need Europe. We have the largest country on Earth. We have all the natural resources we need. I'm tired of all this EU/US bullshit of "Russian aggression". Especially coming from a country that is eternally at war with all the world (USA).

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WWII? You mean the war that Russia started, allied with Germany?

Now that's pretty nasty rewriting of history. Did you forget that it was Drang nach Osten in the first place?

If anyone is rewriting history, it’s the person making Russia an innocent victim of WWII. Russia wanted conquest of Poland and enabled the blitzkrieg.

Then you must also remember that it was Poland that allied with Hitler before anyone else, in hope that Germany will help it to attack Russia. But Hitler had other plans.

Why you always forget about this part of the history? I guess it's not illustrated well in your media blaming Russia for all of your miseries.

You cannot take anyone seriously, who writes "conquest of Poland". Do they even know, what territory they are talking about and how Poland conquered it 20 years earlier? The same Poland, who had their government officials attending NSDAP conferences.

You are denying the conquest of the sovereign nation of Poland in World War II?

Conquest by whom?

Certainly not by USSR. By the time USSR took their territories back - are you still forgetting, that Poland had conquered their territories mere 20 years earlier? - Poland didn't exist anymore and the Polish government was in exile in Romania. There was nothing to conquest. USSR took back what was taken from them.

And let's not forget that Pilsudski government, while it lasted, was fascist, just like the Germans. They played a game and they lost. Unlike Austria and Czechoslovakia, which were also thrown over the board for the Germany, they were not innocent here and had their own imperial ambitions (did you forget that they took their part in partitioning of Czechoslovakia, just months earlier?)

Your revisionism game is strong, pal.

Said by the guy who claimed that USSR started WW2.

Seriously, go read some books about WW2 and stop making fool of yourself in the public.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

September 1: Germany invaded Poland

September 17: USSR invades Poland.

I will give you few more pointers so you can study it in context:

- (1917-19) Curzon line, establishment of second Polish republic, establishment of Soviet Union, succession of Russian Empire & impact of Brest-Litovsk treaty, succession states of Austro-Hungarian Empire;

- (1918-21) Polish-Soviet War, Poland annexing Soviet territories east of Curzon line;

- 1925, publication of Mein Kampf; outlining geopolitical ambitions of Germany

- Intermarium project, Jozef Pilsudski, geopolitical ambitions of Poland

- Polish relations to Germany in 1930s

- (1938) Munich agreement, role of Poland

- August-September 1939; pay particular attention to timeline of exile of polish government officials, compared to "USSR annexes Poland".

But of course, you can ignore all that and pretend that USSR had a capability to start a war at the time (hint: they barely defended themselves, it was huge diplomatic effort to stall the attack on USSR till 1941).

Extremely convenient your dates start before world war 1

Second Polish republic was established after WW1, so that might have something with that. Before that, the territory that became Poland was part of Austro-Hungarian empire (that's why I mentioned it above), plus what they conquered from USSR after WW1.

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