Originally Posted by
Martin the Martian
But Putin has also suggested that Ukraine is broken up into autonomous federal republics, which of course would be much easier for him to pick off one by one.
Like the West helped to do with Yugoslavia and Serbia, if recent history is something you are interested in.
ORAC:
In 1774, Pugachev led 20,000 peasants in the capture of the Russian city of Kazan, setting fire to the city and slaughtering noble families. Catherine’s troops responded to the violence with violence. Pugachev and hundreds of his supporters were executed and thousands more were flogged or mutilated.
I am wondering why the author has an issue with this.
Rebellions are put down hard, and it's rarely pretty. (Our four year civil war was seen by many in the North as a
rebellion, particularly those who were later in the "Radical Reconstructionist" group.)