Former Mongolia leader Tsakhia Elbegdorj wrote "After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation."
  • Putin has relied on historical borders to argue that Ukraine is part of Russia, justifying the war.
  • Mongolia’s former president shared a map of the Mongol Empire, which included parts of Russia.
  • “After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation,” he wrote.

The former president of Mongolia mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend and his focus on history to try to justify his invasion of Ukraine.

Putin has frequently used historical borders to justify his brutal invasion, arguing that Russia has a claim over Ukraine even though Ukraine is an independent country.

In his interview with Tucker Carlson last week, Putin outlined centuries of Russian and European history to justify his invasion. Historians say much of the history he gave doesn’t stand up.

Tsakhia Elbegdorj, who was Mongolia’s president between 2009 and 2017, and was also its prime minister, poked fun at Putin’s argument on X.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    10 months ago

    Just go take it back, Russia is so wrapped up in the western front they wouldn’t be able to mount any kind of defense until it was far too late to hold Siberia.

    • bedrooms@kbin.social
      372·
      10 months ago

      Too bad democracy won’t invade like Putin does because peace is the right thing to do.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      10·
      10 months ago

      If Mongolia is able to muster anything like the force they had when they invaded, it will hardly matter what Russia can mount

        • tal@lemmy.today
          4·
          10 months ago

          guns

          It sounds like he may actually have been the first to bring them to Europe.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe

          Possible Mongol diffusion of gunpowder to Europe

          Several sources mention the Mongols deploying firearms and gunpowder weapons against European forces at the Battle of Mohi in various forms, including bombs hurled via catapult.[55][56][57] Professor Kenneth Warren Chase credits the Mongols for introducing gunpowder and its associated weaponry into Europe.[58] A later legend arose in Europe about a mysterious Berthold Schwarz who is credited with the invention of gunpowder by 15th- through 19th-century European literature.[59]

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        10 months ago

        They would just nuke Mongolia.

        Given how much Russian nuclear maintenance has gone into hookers and vodka over the last forty years, it’s literally anyone’s odds as to whether that shit even leaves the pad before it detonates, if it detonates at all.

        All Putin can do is turn the key, aim for Mongolia, and hope it’s not the loss of an entire local region.

        And that’s before NATO starts raining down holy hell on him because he just triggered MAD, lol.