Yeah, in the Tucker Carlson interview. He spent the first 30 minutes going over his version of history and justifying his invasion. Basically, Ukraine made him invade them.
He was establishing an irredentist land claim, like fascists do. "We used to own this so we can invade, but no one else is allowed to use that logic against us >:("
One could say it was, but just like with French Louisiana, it was more of a way of unloading claimed territory to a friendly emerging country which would make some use of it. It wasn't that developed and didn't have many perspectives.
Eh, guess French Louisiana is more massive. But the point stands.
Vladivostok oblast was named either Northern Manchuria, or Upper Manchuria, less than 120 165 years ago.....
I think China may want their warm water port back
Edit: apparently there were Chinese and Russian skirmishes during the Russia-Japanese War of 1910, but China actually ceded control of the area in 1860, so more like less than 165 years ago.
That territory was taken from China by Russia in 1860. The Mongolian Empire had collapsed far before that happened. The Chinese in the region got forcibly relocated in the 1930s, but as of last year they still make up a significant ethnic minority of the region. The Mongols also make up a smaller ethnic minority in the region.
If you're going to go back to The Mongol Empire, then they controlled the vast majority of Asia and the Middle East, not to mention the sizeable chunk of Europe they controlled. I maintain that if The Mongols and The Vikings had ever united that combined empire would still be global. I'm unsure of that would have been better or worse for us in the current era
I was simply joking that the Mongolian Empire had controlled those regions at some point, and if we go by Russian and Chinese claims that historical ownership means modern ownership, Mongolia would have claim.
The Kievan Rus was founded by Viking settlers, therefore by the Putin's own logic he should cede all of Russia east of the Urals to Denmark, Sweden and Norway while he's at it.
