If Ukraine in ‘an Invented Country,’ So Too is Russian Federation, Telegram Channel Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Oct. 7 – Russian media outlets have picked up American reports that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that Ukraine is not a real but only an “invented” country; but while some accept that idea, the SerpomPo telegram channel says that if Ukraine is indeed “an invented country, then so too is “the new Russia.”

            Both countries, the telegram channel says, “were born in 1991. Period; and therefore if Ukraine is ‘a fiction,’ then so too is Russia as both fell out of the cradle of that ‘great geopolitical catastrophe’ and both are now only 33 years old” (t.me/SerpomPo/26594 reposted at charter97.org/ru/news/2024/10/7/613572/).

            This observation of SerpomPo is important to remember because all too many people in Russia, in some of the other former Soviet republics, and in the West continue to think that the Russian Federation is a real historical country and the non-Russian republics are somehow invented and thus less equal.