"They enter and then leave defeated"

Moscow has been defeated more than once: in the Crimean War of 1853-56, the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, World War I, the Russo-Polish War of 1919-20, and the Afghan War of 1979-89.

People like to compare Putin's madness to Hitler's. But it can also be compared to the idiocy of Nicholas I, who started and lost the Crimean War.

The story of the Crimean War is very typical in this sense.

“People like to compare Putin's madness to Hitler's. But it can also be compared to the idiocy of Nicholas I, who started and lost the Crimean War”

In the run up to the war, in a conversation with the British ambassador, Emperor Nikolas I openly "reasoned" that "the affairs of Turkey are in extreme decline... Circumstances may arise that I will be forced to occupy Constantinople, but I intend to undertake not to enter there, of course, as the owner, but as a temporary defender, which is completely different."

Long story short, the unfortunate man wanted to become the defender of Constantinople in 3 days. And the conversation with the British ambassador was a kind of February 23 for Nikolas I.

During the Crimean War, Russia was defeated and surrendered.

These tsars, their tsarists, and all the endless people do not change. They enter and then leave.

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About the author. Danylo Lubkivskyi, Ukrainian diplomat, international policy expert.

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