You're honestly saying that Russia of all places has no history or culture?
The effort people put into criticizing how others spend their time is baffling, especially on HN.
Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.
They are doing it now, while the whole world watches. If anything, their brazenness is increasing - because they know there will never be any punishment.
When people wonder how Germans allowed their country to tip over into Nazism, modern russia is a perfect reenactment of that: we can see it happening, in real time.
And it's a blazing indictment that the rest of our "civilized" world is doing the absolute minimum to prevent history from repeating itself. Utterly SHAMEFUL.
Just to make sure we're on the right track here, has the UK (or maybe just England?) also earned that forfeit, or does it get a pass because it did all those things further away from home? (Except for that Ireland thing, which has produced some really 'funny' jokes about potatoes...)
Nothing like this has ever been forced onto russia.
And russian crimes are on an unimaginably vast scale. Remember, it was Stalin who said: "Quantity has a quality of its own."
All empires collapse sooner or later. Give it a few hundred (or dozen, or just a few) years. It's turn will come, just like it will for the US hegemony.