When it first emerged, Muscovy, more known today as Moscow, is hardly the world metropolis we know it is today. In fact, it was hardly a city, as much as it was a neighbourhood of mudhuts created as an outpost for the much wealthier slavic states of Rostov and Vladimir.
Everything changed when the Mongol Empire came. You see, the princes of Moscow responded to the invaders with a very unique ideology called pragmatism. Instead of raising noise about defying the Great Satan (of Mongol imperialism), or declaring a military Flood against the Tatar settler colonialism in Crimea, or even God forbid trying to forment some sort of Slavic Axis of Resistance against the invaders, Moscow took the opposite approach. They flattered the Tatars, they gave their daughters to the Mongol khans, and they even plundered other fellow Slavs on behalf of their Mongol overlords. What despicable comprador behaviour!
But see, this pragmatism not only spare them the destruction that was inflicted on rebellious slavic states like Tver (who suffer the fate of a violent regime change engineered by the Mongols), it also allowed them to grow rapidly; so rapid, in fact, that they eventually gained enough strength to topple the Tatar opressors.
That is the key, my friend. Pragmatism, knowing your limits, and long term view of things. Not ideologically charged rhetorics about defying imperialism, not waging suicidal wars simply because you have the moral high ground. Pragmatism is what will defeat imperialism.
Now, this is just a quirky historical post, and certainly has no bearing on the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East and Iran and Palestine specifically. Whatever lessons you want to infer from this post exist solely in your mind.
14 posts and 2 image replies omitted.>>2720003Of course, there is the elephant in the room to be adressed here. People who are so gung ho about confrontational anti imperialism tends to not live in the state, or even in the region where the struggle is happening. Therefore they have no interest in choosing the least painful way forward, because they are not physically impacted by any of this, nor will they be held responsible in case the open confrontation ends up in a failure
Kinda vacuous since you can easily name America as the modern day Mongols too
>>2720059Glad you have no reservations for gulf states support for US against Iran since they're taking out their geopolitical enemy ;)