Jhungary, on the other hand, is repeating Maoist cliches about Communist internationalism that have no basis in reality other than contemporary political dogma intended for no larger audience than the Chinese people, who in fact have strong reasons to be internally disunited and jaded with their corrupt and ineffectual government. In reality, China and the USSR had a big falling-out in the early sixties and came very close to fighting a major war. This is the main reason Nixon visited China and that China invaded Vietnam after the US left.
Modern Communism has no relation to anything from Hellenistic antiquity, which is a world filled with concepts utterly alien to Chinese people. Some would claim that it was Hellenistic antiquity itself that laid down the basic contrasts between Western and Eastern civilization. To this day, Easterners cannot easily understand the cultural concepts associated with the ancient Hellenistic world.
Communism is in practice effectively a religion, with a clergy, saints, holy books, dogmas, eschatology, even an esoteric cosmology. Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Maoists waving the Little Red Book or memorizing it like Islamic surahs, or making pilgrimages to the preserved corpse of Lenin or asking Lenin's body whether they should get married knows that Communism, like many other political ideologies, is effectively a religious cult. The fact it is officially atheistic is irrelevant - the ideology nonetheless functions according to the practice of a religion.
Lenin was half Ashkenazi Jewish of German extraction, half Uighur Mongol. Jhungary is correct that he, like Trotsky and Marx, did not consider himself Jewish, but that people of Jewish descent were drawn to the movement (along with a much larger number of Gentiles) and tended to rise to prominence because of the Jews' status as a persecuted minority in most countries and their traditions of literacy and education.
Bottom line, none of these weird ideological ideas or Islamic superstitions have anything to do with what's going on in the Crimea. Plain and simple, what's going on there is a power play between Western interests backing the petrodollar and Russia's desire to be a great power again.
It would work a lot better for you to read other's post properly before you trying to be a smartarse about it. Cause you explained nothing but simply put word onto my mouth.
Jhungary, on the other hand, is repeating Maoist cliches about Communist internationalism that have no basis in reality other than contemporary political dogma intended for no larger audience than the Chinese people, who in fact have strong reasons to be internally disunited and jaded with their corrupt and ineffectual government. In reality, China and the USSR had a big falling-out in the early sixties and came very close to fighting a major war. This is the main reason Nixon visited China and that China invaded Vietnam after the US left.
First of all, I did not use Maos internationalism to propagate the Communist believe, in fact, I never even mention Maos and Chinese Communist. I merely suggest that the state of Soviet Union is form by a person with Jewish Heritage, that does not mean automatically escalated them into a Jewish States as someone else's suggest.
It may be amaze to know actually different country have a different takes on Communism, and thus, communism is basically not united. Soviet Union have its own set and definition of communism, which focus on central power (the Duma) while the Chinese, especially under Mao's focus on Mao himself, if you are a student of Political Science at all, you would notice that some scholar do actually dispute the Maoist is any sort or form of Communism, basically Maoist put Mao on top of them all, and that's including the ideology.
What I said there would not be any infighting within communism is that within the same system (eg, within Russia, or With China) this is due to the centralised power of any form. it would not allow any opposition within the same system. The fact that China almost went to war with USSR and did went to war with Vietnam Communist not due to an "In-fighting" but a clash of Idea within 2 systems.
Modern Communism has no relation to anything from Hellenistic antiquity, which is a world filled with concepts utterly alien to Chinese people. Some would claim that it was Hellenistic antiquity itself that laid down the basic contrasts between Western and Eastern civilization. To this day, Easterners cannot easily understand the cultural concepts associated with the ancient Hellenistic world.
Since when did I say Modern Communism are related to Hellenistic Antiquity? You do know that democracy also happened during Athenian Classical Antiquity time, but if you compare Athenian Democracy to modern day contemporary democracy, you would find the two system is actually quite different, where Athenian Democracy is more aligned to modern day communism belief.
By the way, in case you still don't know, I was using the historical background to try a make a point on my reply.
Communism is in practice effectively a religion, with a clergy, saints, holy books, dogmas, eschatology, even an esoteric cosmology. Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Maoists waving the Little Red Book or memorizing it like Islamic surahs, or making pilgrimages to the preserved corpse of Lenin or asking Lenin's body whether they should get married knows that Communism, like many other political ideologies, is effectively a religious cult. The fact it is officially atheistic is irrelevant - the ideology nonetheless functions according to the practice of a religion.
Indeed most political belief can be seen as at least equal to Religious belief, but then I did not claim anything about Communist and atheistic belief is relevant. In fact, Communism allow some degree of Religious freedom. Most Russian retain the Orthodox Christianity belief during the USSR period. And a break down of religion distribution of people living under USSR rules you will see the statistic suggested the same pattern of religion diversity than any other country.
While Chinese Communist era would see majority of resident dove into Buddhism belief, with a fraction of Taoist, Christianity and Islamic belief.
And as I said, Mao would not be a good example for playing the religion side of Communism, again, Mao is a narcissistic person who believe nothing but himself and while he is in charge, he force others to believe his philosophy too.
Lenin was half Ashkenazi Jewish of German extraction, half Uighur Mongol. Jhungary is correct that he, like Trotsky and Marx, did not consider himself Jewish, but that people of Jewish descent were drawn to the movement (along with a much larger number of Gentiles) and tended to rise to prominence because of the Jews' status as a persecuted minority in most countries and their traditions of literacy and education.
Well, I do not tend to dapple into yet another issue regarding Judaism. (By the way, you should not use the word "Jews"). But I just want to add a single point, the funny thing is, Jewish Population in Soviet Union are also persecuted because of their tradition, status, education and literacy.
Bottom line, none of these weird ideological ideas or Islamic superstitions have anything to do with what's going on in the Crimea. Plain and simple, what's going on there is a power play between Western interests backing the petrodollar and Russia's desire to be a great power again.
Bottom line is, that was not even my point, my point is it's quite dumb for Russia to make the Crimea a political play.
It lost more ground and advantage on Ukraine then the gaining of Crimea.
don't agree with the OP, the Russians are still second place to the US army with their tech but as a US general recently noted on FOX news, they're still the
only country on earth capable of destroying the United States
Crimea was taken without so much as a shot being fired because of their overwhelming force, for the rest of Ukraine, we've seen what they were capable of in Debaltseve and Donetsk airport ops when they stormed the so called "cyborgs", Putin has showed great restraint in Donbass otherwise, Ukies will be finished in a few days in they go all in.
the problem of Russia in Ukraine is not based on Ukraine and its troop, but the overall situation. As I said many time before, the Russia could have involve themselves directly like they were doing in Crimea, yet, even with all the under the table assistance and all the western sanction, Russia still have not "officially" acknowledge their involvement in Eastern Ukraine.
And no. Basically any country with Nuclear delivery capability can destroy the US, that make India, China, Pakistan French and the Brits on the list....
!!!! Wow, Seriously!!!??? The ONLY advanced regiment they had (what they consider as "advance"), with new targeting PODS, etc, they sent it to Syria. What's left outside of it to protect Russia? a couple of hundred SU-27's, a hundred of so SU-30, a hundred or so Junk-29 (Mig-29) and majority of them old, without upgrades, and in bad shape. That's WAY to go, to power project across the globe with less than 500 capable aircraft!!
