The War in Ukraine is a Colonial War

First a tad of how I learned a lot of this history. Even if now I am reading a lot more. When I went to graduate school I took a year of Russian history, as well as a semester course on Colonialism. It was near the collapse of the Soviet Union. My instructor and the textbook were Russian.

It was also a time when we studied Russian history from the point of view of Moscow. All that happened in Ukraine, was told from that point of view. In fact, the White Armies, and the Red Armies of Ukraine were mostly ignored. The penetration of the Polish Army into Russia early in…