#fatherland 1994

[nepizdel]

HB-DAY RUTGER HAUER (almost forgot to congratulate him)

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

The 90s

Enchanted April (1991)

The Crying Game (1992)

Damage (1992)

Century (1993)

Tom & Viv (1994)

The Night and the Moment (1994)

Fatherland (1994)

Absolutely Fabulous (1994)

Kansas City (1996)

A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)

The Scold's Bridle (1998)

Merlin (1998)

St. Ives (1998)

Alice in Wonderland (1999)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

[fishlesh]

he is so pretty :'3

(Fatherland 1994)

[brookston]

Holidays 12.9

Holidays

Anna's Day (Finland, Sweden)

Armed Forces Day (Peru)

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Day

Battle of Ayacucho Day (Peru)

Christmas Card Day

Christmas Gift Memory Day

Cremation Day

Eggsmas (from “The League”)

Fatherland’s Heroes Day (Russia)

Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico)

Genocide Prevention Day

Grace Hopper Day

Heroes Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Homemade Gift Day

International Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crimes of Genocide & of the Prevention of this Crime

International Day of Veterinary Medicine

International Human Rights Defenders Day

Lady Gaga Day

Mail Your Cards Day

National Blake Day

National Heroes Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

National Llama Day

Navy Day (Sri Lanka)

Petrified Forest Day

Public Transit Day

Savin Juniper Day (French Republic)

V.C. Bird Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

Weary Willie Day

World Alliance for Patient Safety Day

World Day of Computing

World Genocide Commemoration Day (UN)

World Patient Safety Day

World Smallpox Eradication Day

World SIUGR (Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

World Techno Day

Yuri's Day in the Autumn (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Mariscada Day (Spain)

National Opal Apples Day

National Pastry Day

Pepparkakans Dag (Gingerbread Cookie Day; Sweden)

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day

2nd Saturday in December

Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts) [2nd Saturday]

Bath & Body Works’ Body Care Day [2nd Saturday]

Bring Your Christmas Tree Home Day [2nd Saturday]

Day of the Horse [2nd Saturday; also 12.13]

Gingerbread Decorating Day [2nd Saturday]

Hakiadaore Ichi (Shoe Festival; Japan) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

Hantoro begins (Flower & Light Festival; Japan) [2nd Saturday to 23rd]

International Shareware Day [2nd Saturday]

Le Foire aux Noix begins (Nuts Fair; Bastogne, Belgium) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Rino Island (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Tanzania (f.k.a. Tanganyika; from UK, 1961)

Feast Days

Evergreen Day (Pagan)

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Galileo (Positivist; Saint)

Hanukkah Day #2 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

Juan Diego (Christian; Saint)

Leocadia (Christian; Saint)

Ljubica Sokić (Artology)

The Martyrdom of St. Kenny (Church of the SubGenius)

Nectarius of Auvergne (Christian; Saint)

Noodle Ring Day (Pastafarian)

Peter Fourier (Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson (Troth/Asatru/Norse Pagan)

The Seven Martyrs at Samosata (Christian; Martyrs)

This Day Deliberately Left Blank (Pastafarian)

Tropical Grossbill (Muppetism)

Wulfhilde (Christian; Saint)

Yuri’s Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [58 of 60]

Premieres

The Bishop’s Wife (Film; 1947)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Buddy’s Show Boat (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Charge of the Light Brigade (Poem; 1854)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Animated TV Special; 1965)

Christine (Film; 1983)

Coronation Street (UK Soap Opera; 1960)

Dark Horse, by George Harrison (Album; 1974)

Disclosure (Film; 1994)

Fiesta Fiasco (WB LT Cartoon; 1967)

Fresh Cream, by Cream (Album; 1966)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Animated Film; 2022)

Hot August Nights, by Neil Diamond (Live Album; 1972)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Little Saint Nick, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

A Love Supreme, recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet (Album; 1964)

Memories of a Geisha (Film; 2005)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1988)

Office Christmas Party (Film; 2016)

Richard II, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1595)

R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury (Short Stories; 1962)

Salome, by Richard Strauss (Opera; 1905)

Scarface (Film; 1983)

SOS, by SZA (Album; 2022)

Soul Man, by The Blues Brothers (Song; 1978)

The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff (Children’s Book; 1931)

Sudden Impact (Film; 1983)

Syriana (Film; 2005)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film; 2011)

Twins (Film; 1988)

The Whale (Film; 2022)

Words and Music (Film; 1948)

young Adult (Film; 2011)

Young at Heart, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Austria)

Ana, Anna, Anushka, Nusha (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Diego, Liberan, Zdravka (Croatia)

Vratislav (Czech Republic)

Rudolph (Denmark)

Raid, Raido, Raidu, Raigo, Raigo, Raik, Raiko, Rait (Estonia)

Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Annikki, Annu, Annukka, Anu (Finland)

Pierre (France)

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Germany)

Ann, Anna (Greece)

Natália (Hungary)

Siro (Italy)

Joachims, Jukums, Sarmīte, Tabita (Latvia)

Gedenė, Leokadija, Vakaris, Valerija (Lithuania)

Annette, Anniken (Norway)

Delfina, Joachim, Joachima, Leokadia, Loda, Waleria, Wielisława, Wiesław (Poland)

Maria (Romania)

Izabela (Slovakia)

Diego, Juan, Leocadia (Spain)

Anna (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Delfina, Delfino, Delphina, Kirby, Kirk, Kirkwood (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 343 of 2024; 22 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 27 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 26 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 13 Zima; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 26 November 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Bichat (13th Month) [Galileo]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 77 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 18 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.9

Holidays

Anna's Day (Finland, Sweden)

Armed Forces Day (Peru)

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Day

Battle of Ayacucho Day (Peru)

Christmas Card Day

Christmas Gift Memory Day

Cremation Day

Eggsmas (from “The League”)

Fatherland’s Heroes Day (Russia)

Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico)

Genocide Prevention Day

Grace Hopper Day

Heroes Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Homemade Gift Day

International Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crimes of Genocide & of the Prevention of this Crime

International Day of Veterinary Medicine

International Human Rights Defenders Day

Lady Gaga Day

Mail Your Cards Day

National Blake Day

National Heroes Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

National Llama Day

Navy Day (Sri Lanka)

Petrified Forest Day

Public Transit Day

Savin Juniper Day (French Republic)

V.C. Bird Day (Antigua & Barbuda)

Weary Willie Day

World Alliance for Patient Safety Day

World Day of Computing

World Genocide Commemoration Day (UN)

World Patient Safety Day

World Smallpox Eradication Day

World SIUGR (Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

World Techno Day

Yuri's Day in the Autumn (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Mariscada Day (Spain)

National Opal Apples Day

National Pastry Day

Pepparkakans Dag (Gingerbread Cookie Day; Sweden)

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day

2nd Saturday in December

Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts) [2nd Saturday]

Bath & Body Works’ Body Care Day [2nd Saturday]

Bring Your Christmas Tree Home Day [2nd Saturday]

Day of the Horse [2nd Saturday; also 12.13]

Gingerbread Decorating Day [2nd Saturday]

Hakiadaore Ichi (Shoe Festival; Japan) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

Hantoro begins (Flower & Light Festival; Japan) [2nd Saturday to 23rd]

International Shareware Day [2nd Saturday]

Le Foire aux Noix begins (Nuts Fair; Bastogne, Belgium) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Rino Island (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Tanzania (f.k.a. Tanganyika; from UK, 1961)

Feast Days

Evergreen Day (Pagan)

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Galileo (Positivist; Saint)

Hanukkah Day #2 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

Juan Diego (Christian; Saint)

Leocadia (Christian; Saint)

Ljubica Sokić (Artology)

The Martyrdom of St. Kenny (Church of the SubGenius)

Nectarius of Auvergne (Christian; Saint)

Noodle Ring Day (Pastafarian)

Peter Fourier (Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson (Troth/Asatru/Norse Pagan)

The Seven Martyrs at Samosata (Christian; Martyrs)

This Day Deliberately Left Blank (Pastafarian)

Tropical Grossbill (Muppetism)

Wulfhilde (Christian; Saint)

Yuri’s Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [58 of 60]

Premieres

The Bishop’s Wife (Film; 1947)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Buddy’s Show Boat (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Charge of the Light Brigade (Poem; 1854)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Animated TV Special; 1965)

Christine (Film; 1983)

Coronation Street (UK Soap Opera; 1960)

Dark Horse, by George Harrison (Album; 1974)

Disclosure (Film; 1994)

Fiesta Fiasco (WB LT Cartoon; 1967)

Fresh Cream, by Cream (Album; 1966)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Animated Film; 2022)

Hot August Nights, by Neil Diamond (Live Album; 1972)

La La Land (Film; 2016)

Little Saint Nick, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1963)

A Love Supreme, recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet (Album; 1964)

Memories of a Geisha (Film; 2005)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1988)

Office Christmas Party (Film; 2016)

Richard II, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1595)

R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury (Short Stories; 1962)

Salome, by Richard Strauss (Opera; 1905)

Scarface (Film; 1983)

SOS, by SZA (Album; 2022)

Soul Man, by The Blues Brothers (Song; 1978)

The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff (Children’s Book; 1931)

Sudden Impact (Film; 1983)

Syriana (Film; 2005)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film; 2011)

Twins (Film; 1988)

The Whale (Film; 2022)

Words and Music (Film; 1948)

young Adult (Film; 2011)

Young at Heart, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Austria)

Ana, Anna, Anushka, Nusha (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Diego, Liberan, Zdravka (Croatia)

Vratislav (Czech Republic)

Rudolph (Denmark)

Raid, Raido, Raidu, Raigo, Raigo, Raik, Raiko, Rait (Estonia)

Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Annikki, Annu, Annukka, Anu (Finland)

Pierre (France)

Liborius, Reinmar, Valerie (Germany)

Ann, Anna (Greece)

Natália (Hungary)

Siro (Italy)

Joachims, Jukums, Sarmīte, Tabita (Latvia)

Gedenė, Leokadija, Vakaris, Valerija (Lithuania)

Annette, Anniken (Norway)

Delfina, Joachim, Joachima, Leokadia, Loda, Waleria, Wielisława, Wiesław (Poland)

Maria (Romania)

Izabela (Slovakia)

Diego, Juan, Leocadia (Spain)

Anna (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Delfina, Delfino, Delphina, Kirby, Kirk, Kirkwood (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 343 of 2024; 22 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 27 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 26 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 13 Zima; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 26 November 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Bichat (13th Month) [Galileo]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 77 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 18 of 30)

[sad-girl28]

she's sooo pretty !!

fatherland, 1994

[dynamofilms]

Fatherland (1994)

5/10

[cinema-yura15cbx]

Vaterland Fatherland (Кристофер Менол Christopher Menaul) [1994, США

Даниил Андреев писал, что полупризрачные даже для другого мира души созданных в художественных произведениях образов продолжают всё-таки там жить и даже эволюционировать. А писатель, их создавший, несёт ответственность за их эволюцию. Быть может и с душой каждого актёра на том свете неразрывно связаны образы всех тех ролей, которые он сыграл, они как полупризрачные души живут своими жизнями, но связь их с актёром никогда не прерывается и он ответственен за их эволюцию.

И вот сидя за столом он вдруг задумался, и будто вспомнил, но то, что он вспомнил с ним не происходило, это вообще не происходило ни с кем из людей: и атакующие горящие косми��еские корабли на плечах Ориона, и С-лучи пронзающие тьму у ворот Тенхаузера, что бы это ни значило. С удивлением рассматривая свою вдруг ставшую здоровой ладонь он осознал, что все эти моменты должны были раствориться во времени, как слёзы под дождём, но почему-то на мгновение снова вернулись к нему.

[pingufan974]

What If Atomic Heart and The Man in the High Castle and fallout and Southern Victory and

Friday the 13th and Alexander Empire and 1916: Year of Peace and 1811- US Revolution and 1983: Doomsday and Great Empire's and A Different Flesh and Vikings in the New World and Buddhist Europe and 1776: No Slavery and 1854: World War One and 1994 Baseball Strike Averted and 1789: Emperor Washington and The Gate of Time and adventure time and Watchmen and kung fu panda and The Sun and The Eternal Sky and Tudor Rose and The Two Georges and Edward the Great and Great Flood and Springtime of Nations and Fatherland mix together

[cewritten23]

Ken Currie:

• Ken Currie was born in 1960, North Sheilds, Northumbria, Scotland.

• Currie’s work is unsettling, figurative and evokes us to think of issues concerning morality, mortality as well as social injustice.

• Currie became well known by many in the 1980s with a group of painters called The New Glasgow Boys.

• Neo-expressionist painting.

• Some of the artist’s paintings were to be displayed in the People’s Palace in Glasgow.

• The artist’s subject matter moved to morality and corruption in response to the humanitarian problems that occurred in Eastern Europe.

• Works have a subject matter that depict Currie’s personal feelings towards social inequality.

• Currie studies at Paisley College of Technolgy, studying social science from 1977-1978.

• He then went to study at Glasgow School of Art where he studied a degree and post-graduate in fine art 1978-1983.

• Currie has been involved with many commissions and involvements with places around Scotland. The artist commissioned for the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow as well as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and filmmaking with Cranhill Art Project in Glasgow.

• Currie’s audience is pushed to face and realise their humanity.

• Currie’s paintings allow the viewer to experience the ‘otherness’ that is metaphysical.

• The artists paintings allow the metaphysical to become real.

• Currie found a new practice and his work became minimal, deep and dark with blue-black backgrounds that would spread across the whole canvas with a luminescent mask positioned, almost flouting in the middle of the darkness.

• Translucent paint in order to create a luminosity appearance.

• ‘I Saw the World End’ is a painting that depicts a head with bloodshot eyes and broken lips. The figures head is thin and skinned with blood vains.

To Live and Work No.307, 1995-96

Study For Night and Death, 1995-1996

Gallowgate Lard, 1995-1996

Study (Boy Laughing)

FATHERLAND, 1994

Untitled, Portrait, 2006

How will this influence my work;

• The uncanny and almost ghostly appearance of the figures withing many of Currie’s paintings resonate with many of my ghostly figures

• The cold whites, blues, fleshy tones and harsh reds will also influence many of the figures seen in my works.

• The majority of my works will have a dark background with the figure residing in the centre.

[leaarong]

Fatherland 1994 HQ

[nepizdel]

oh god guys, i hope we'll all meet one day, talk about Hauer and drink tea with milk

[hicginewsagency]

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in Fatherland Liberation War: Kim Il Sung Defeats Two Imperialist Powers

H.E. Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), the eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, created a model of national liberation struggle in colonies by defeating two imperialist powers in his generation. Creating a Model of Guerrilla Warfare Korea was under Japan’s military occupation from 1905 to 1945. Having declared an all-out war against Japan, a newly-emerging…

[irradiate-space]

You make a lot of good points about how deescalation is a mutual thing, and I agree with you that the current post-2022-invasion and post-Crimean-invasion sanctions regimes should have clearer removal triggers, along the lines of "when Russia withdraws beyond this line".

But let's go back to the beginning. Why didn't Russia join NATO in the early 2000s? This timeline is assembled from several sources:

1994: NATO creates the "Partnership for Peace" program to facilitate coordination with non-NATO neighbor states. Russia, Czechia, Hungary and Poland are among the joining states.

1997: Russia and NATO sign a "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security", and create the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council. This is allegedly the condition for billions of dollars of IMF loans.

1998: Russia and NATO cooperate in the Kosovo conflict, where Albanian separatists in Kosovo were being genocided by Yugoslavia's Serbian military forces. (In 2003, Yugoslavia was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro, which lasted until Montenego broke off in 2006.)

1999: Russia condemns NATO bombings in Yugoslavia, which continued until Yugoslavia withdrew from Kosovo.

11 June 1999: Kosovo War ends. NATO and Russia establish a joint peacekeeping force, but NATO doesn't divvy up territory. Russia wanted its own separate peacekeeping sector. NATO wanted to avoid partition of Kosovo.

12-26 June 1999: Standoff between NATO and Russian forces at Pristina airport in Kosovo. Russia demands an exclusive territory of peacekeeping in Kosovo and blocks the airport. NATO blockades the airport, and neighboring nations refuse to allow Russian planes access to supply or reinforce the Russian troops at the airport. The situation is resolved diplomatically when Russian peacekeepers are given an independent chain of command in Kosovo, but no independent territory. The American officer commanding the NATO forces was later removed from his post; peace occurred because his subordinates disobeyed his orders to escalate.

7 August 1999: Start of the Second Chechen War with the War of Dagestan, where 2,000 Chechen separatists enter neighboring Dagestan. (Both provinces border Georgia.)

9 August 1999: Putin appointed deputy prime minister; same day promotion to prime minister of Russia; Yeltsin announces that he hopes Putin will be his successor as president. Putin announces his candidacy.

4 September 1999: An apartment building explodes in Dagestan. Putin blames Chechen militants. There is widespread suspicion that this was a false-flag attack by the Russian FSB to build support for a pro-war government.

September 1999: Creation of the Unity Party in Russia, backed by Yeltsin, Putin, and 39 regional governors.

1 October 1999: Putin declares the Chechen presidency and parliament illegitimate, announces land invasion of Chechnya.

19 December 1999: Unity Party wins 72/441 seats in Russian Parliamentary elections, riding popularity of Putin's war on Chechnya.

1999: NATO publishes a new Strategic Concept that gives it a more world-police role.

31 December 1999: Yeltsin unexpectedly resigns; Putin becomes acting president of Russia.

7 May 2000: Putin becomes president of Russia.

May 2000: Russia reestablishes direct rule over Chechnya, which it had not had since the end of the First Chechen War in 1996.

post-9/11: Russia provides intelligence to US forces in Afghanistan, and indirectly to NATO.

April 2001: Unity Party and the Fatherland - All Russia party unite to form the United Russia party.

May 2002: Russia and USA sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, which reduced the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1700 per country by 2012.

May 2002: Formation of the NATO-Russia Council.

13 June 2002: USA withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which limited development and deployment of defensive countermissile systems, citing the risk of nuclear missile attack by rogue states (North Korea, Iran). Many countries object to this, because it would better enable the US to shrug off a retaliation strike if the US engaged in a nuclear first strike.

14 June 2002: In response, Russia withdraws from START II, which wasn't yet in effect. START II banned MIRVs.

"early" 2003: Russia withdraws from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.

September 2003: Russia gains a military base in Kyrgyzstan.

7 December 2003: United Russia party claims 223/450 seats in the State Duma

March 2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO

March 2004: Putin wins his second term as president.

April 2004: NATO signs agreements establishing Russian military liaison offices at NATO HQ

August 2004: Russian government retaliates against Yukos for its boss' Khodorkovsky's opposition to Putin. The Russian government seizes and purchases a major part of Yukos, Yuganskneftegaz.

September 2004: Putin ends direct election of regional governors.

November 2004: Start of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, after substantiated allegations of vote rigging favoring Yanukovich in the 21 November runoff presidential election.

I think it is obvious that tensions existed between NATO and Russia before the Orange Revolution, and indeed before Putin became president. But this also shows the story that Putin has made for himself: he came to power on the promise to reunite Russia and retake separatist lands, starting with the territorial claims in Kosovo. Chechnya in 1999, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014, Donetsk and Luhansk in following years: these are part of a pattern of territorial aggression by Russia towards independent former Soviet republics.

But was Russia actually rejected by NATO?

September 2005: Germany and Russia sign agreement to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which comes into service in 2011.

November 2006: Russian critic Alexander Litvinenko dies of polonium poisoning in London.

August 2007: Russia plants flag on North Pole seabed, claims Arctic oil.

November 2007: In response to international criticism of the Litvinenko poisoning, Putin suspends Russian participation in the 1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty.

January 2008: Russian naval fleet exercises in the Bay of Biscay, off France.

February 2008: Kosovo formally declares independence; Russia objects to Kosovo's recognition by other countries.

April 2008: NATO publishes the Bucharest Summit Declaration, which welcomes the candidacy of Georgia and Ukraine through MAP, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro through IPAP, and Serbia through Partnership for Peace and eventually an IPAP. NATO offers a linked US-NATO-Russian missile defense network.

August 2008: The aforementioned war in Georgia. NATO says there can be no "business as usual" with Russia until Russia withdraws from Georgia. Russia declares South Ossetia and Abkhazia independent, using the Kosovo precedent.

April 2009: Albania and Croatia enter NATO.

May 2009: NATO military exercises in Georgia; Russia says it's too soon after the Georgian War.

September 2009: US withdraws plans for missile defense bases in Poland and Czech Republic, after Russian threats of military and nuclear force.

April 2010: Russian President Medvedev signs the New START treaty with the US.

June 2010: US backs Russian accession to the World Trade Organization.

June 2011: NATO-Russia joint fighter jet exercise.

Summer 2011: NATO intervention in Libya, which Medvedev and Putin objected to.

March 2012: Putin begins third term as President.

August 2012: Russia joins WTO.

Then we enter the time of Euromaidan, and the conquering of Crimea, after which NATO withdrew from cooperation with Russia. Then there were the Russian actions in Syria and Turkey, and more recently, Ukraine.

There's a lot of little thing which add up, but with the exception of the US withdrawing from the ABM treaty, it looks like there's a couple of patterns:

Russia is denied a potential future territorial claim by NATO, and throws a fit (Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine)

Russia does something unilateral and stupid (Litvinenko, Bay of Biscay, Arctic claims, other assassinations) and receives pushback, so it does something to retaliate to the pushback (CFE treaty withdrawal, saber-rattling)

Putin may not trust the West, but the reasons he cites for not trusting the West are self-inflicted. Russia keeps making territorial claims, the West keeps making defensive preparations, and then Russia claims that the defensive preparations are scary and Russia is the victim. It's DARVO, plain and simple.

Sources used:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17840446

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18023381

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%E2%80%93Russia_relations#NATO-Russia_Council

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_139339.htm

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50090.htm

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

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

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nato-clinton-ukraine-russia/

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm

So the thing which I think puzzles me most about the whole Crimea situation is this: Russia allegedly invaded Crimea in order to gain control of the deepwater port of Sevastopol.

Russia has many miles of coastline on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Why doesn't Russia simply build its own deepwater port on its own territory, instead of paying leases to Ukraine (before 2014) or provoking international outrage (after 2014)? Surely it is cheaper to dredge and build a new port and associated infrastructure than to — checks notes — receive punishing international sanctions, deplete post-Cold-War military materiel reserves, destroy a whole generation of AMAB citizens, and become a Chinese client state?

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Events 9.9 (after 1940)

1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. 1940 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania. 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon. 1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. 1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established. 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China. 1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. 1948 – Kim Il Sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). 1954 – The 6.7 Mw  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured. 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. 1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established. 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage. 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government. 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft. 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan. 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison. 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world. 1976 – Two Aeroflot flights collide in mid-air over Anapa, Soviet Union, killing 70. 1988 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, while on approach to Don Muang International Airport, killing 76. 1990 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District. 1991 – Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union. 1993 – Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. 1994 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-64. 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview. 2006 – Space Shuttle Program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-115 to resume assembling the International Space Station. It is the first ISS assembly mission after the Columbia disaster back in 2003.[13] 2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated. 2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches. 2012 – A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq. 2015 – Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. 2016 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".