here is what’s in store for you this week:
Even beyond Ukraine, the senseless hunger for the total annihilation of any conquered land is a distinctive feature of russian imperial warfare through centuries.
We don’t talk often enough about the history of russian attempts to colonise Africa.
russian colonialism has always been radically anti-women.
There’s no such thing as ‘russian ethnic minorities’ in the countries neighbouring russia - they are settler colonisers and their descendants.
Crimea-Qirim has never been russian.
Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on Russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.
