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Video From the BBC: Cassetteboy's 2016 Wipe

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))12/30/2016 3:07:42 am PST

re: #33 Anymouse

foreignpolicy.com

The Unlikely Origins of Russia’s Manifest Destiny

How an obscure academic and a marginalized philosopher captured the minds of the Kremlin and helped forge the new Russian nationalism.

Do not forget the Doctrine of Russia as the Third Rome: After the fall of Rome and Byzantium, Russia became the defender of the True Christian Faith.

And a Fourth Rome there shall not be.

Because all cool stuff comes in threes, right?