almaty native - california transplant - sociology professor - views are my own - 🇰🇿🇺🇦
Azamat Junisbai
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“The Russian Federation remains the world's largest unrepentant colonizer.
What makes this voracious, predatory empire invisible to an unquestioning observer is the saltwater fallacy, the refusal of the Western mind to grasp that colonies don't have to be separated from the metropole by high seas.”
As the Kremlin loses hope of conquering Ukraine, they signal they might accept a chunk to sell this domestically as victory. This tells you what the war was always about and what russian society thinks of it-- both the regime and russian society seek imperial conquest, not security.
I am struck by the clarity and depth of this comment on how Central Asian scholars/studies are going through a decolonial moment. Thank you, @judithbeyer.bsky.social, for articulating something I have long struggled to put into words and was hesitant to say.
