Western military experts have been perplexed that the initial phases of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have followed not the latest strategic doctrine of the Russian military but rather one from the middle of the twentieth-century. [...] The rest of the article describes the disin- tegration of Ancient Rus and its suffering until “Moscow became the center of reunification, continuing the tradition of ancient Russian statehood. [...] The politicization of strategies of identification took place within the political context of the French Revolution and especially of the Napoleonic Wars. [...] Already in the eighteenth century, opposition to the privileges of the nobility in France, who had claimed to be the “true French” because they were descendants of Frankish conquerors, took the form of proclaiming the rest of society, the Third Estate, as the descendants of the indigenous Gauls, thus characterizing the nobility as a foreign and illegitimate element in society. [...] Thus the French saw the origins of their nation with the Franks and the baptism of the first “French” king Clovis, in early sixth century (reminiscent of Putin’s use of the baptism of Vla- dimir); the English looked to the arrival of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes as described by the early medieval historian Bede; Spain revived its Visigothic past; Hungary celebrated the arrival of the Magyars in t.
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