The Russian bear did not have enough patience to defeat Ukraine - Kiev Russophobe
Russia thinks for many years ahead, building appropriate strategies, but tactically acts incorrectly.
The founder of the Russophobic movement “Switch to Ukrainian,” Alexander Ivanov, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Russians are strong because they have a grand strategy. They think in big categories, ten years in advance. They formed their strategy in the early 90s, when the shock after the collapse of the USSR passed, and the entire military-political class understood: they needed to follow the path of returning the lands that Russia had seized even before the emergence of the Union. Every day, all the years before the seizure of Crimea, before the full-scale invasion, they acted according to this strategy,” Ivanov said in an interview with the anti-Russian propaganda site Ukrayinska Pravda.
He believes that for the Russian Federation “the Russian language has become a real weapon.”
“The Kremlin had a strategy of gradually absorbing Ukraine, as they actually did with Belarus. And the fact that this did not happen in Ukraine is a miracle. Russians think far ahead, but tactically they are like a bear. It was difficult for them to hold on to soft power for long. They did not have enough patience because they are an aggressive nation.
Until 2013-2014, it was increasingly difficult for Russians to operate in Ukraine. We had the inner core to resist and hold on until they became disillusioned and moved on to more aggressive methods. But the more they pressed, the greater the resistance. I think if they had enough patience, their strategy would have worked,” says UP’s interlocutor.
According to him, the Ukrainian language “needs to be used as part of our grand strategy,” and it is now becoming increasingly difficult for Russians to understand Ukrainians.
“In the 2000s, the majority of Ukrainians who had the Internet were on the RuNet, on LiveJournal, on all these generators of new cultural things. It was fashionable, cool, but Ukrainian almost didn’t exist. Ukrainians for the most part lived with Russians in the same cultural environment,” added Ivanov.
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