"But of COURSE, it was the land of our forefathers. The well from which we sprang. For a while we were excluded, but our leaders fought a war and got it back. Then we lost it again and now by God we are going to take it back again from those who don't even speak our language. "
Is that an Israeli speaking? Nope: it is pretty much what Put…
"But of COURSE, it was the land of our forefathers. The well from which we sprang. For a while we were excluded, but our leaders fought a war and got it back. Then we lost it again and now by God we are going to take it back again from those who don't even speak our language. "
Is that an Israeli speaking? Nope: it is pretty much what Putin says about Ukraine, more or less accurately, in fact. Catherine the Great was the leader who "got it back." It had been in in the "heartland" of the Kievan Rus' and then for almost a thousand years in the hands of (in part) Poland, the Khanate, and the Cossack Hetmanate.
"But of COURSE, it was the land of our forefathers. The well from which we sprang. For a while we were excluded, but our leaders fought a war and got it back. Then we lost it again and now by God we are going to take it back again from those who don't even speak our language. "
Is that an Israeli speaking? Nope: it is pretty much what Putin says about Ukraine, more or less accurately, in fact. Catherine the Great was the leader who "got it back." It had been in in the "heartland" of the Kievan Rus' and then for almost a thousand years in the hands of (in part) Poland, the Khanate, and the Cossack Hetmanate.