Russia's first king, Alexander Nevsky, halted the advance of the German
Teutonic Order in 1242, destroying them in the 'Battle on the Ice'.

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America told Ukraine to invade the Russian city of Kursk, and across the Russian border the Ukrainians and American mercenaries went, some twenty to thirty miles into Russia to take Russian territory and kill Russian civilians. Although they're only a few miles from the border and Ukraine, they may as well be a thousand miles from home. Let's examine what happened to countries that invaded Russia throughout history.

In the mid 13th century Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire, sent his son Jochi with 100,000, Mongol warriors to conquer the lands of what is now Siberia, Central Russia, and Eastern Europe. The Mongols defeated the small poorly prepared forces of the Russian princes, who prior to the formation of the Russian state were at war with each other.

In 1237, the Mongols, led by Batu Khan, again invaded Kievan Rus’ looting and burning all the main Russian cities: Ryazan’, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir, and Tver. The invasion continued until 1242. It took 100 years for Russia to recover from the damage done by Batu Khan.

In 1243, Yaroslav II of Vladimir was the first Russian prince to receive permission to rule Russia only after swearing his allegiance to Batu Khan. The Yaroslav II rule of the Russian state began 250 years before America was discovered by Colombus in 1492, and 534 years before America would declare its independence from great Briton in 1776.

The Mongols didn’t destroy Russia fully in order to force Russia into paying tributes. Russia paid tributes while resisting the rule of the Khans for 457 years. The last tribute payment was made by Russian king Peter the Great, according to the Treaty of Constantinople in 1700, to the Khan of Crimea, an Ottoman Empire vassal.

On April 5, 1242 Russian prince, Alexander Nevsky, halted the advance of the German Teutonic Order, destroying them in the 'Battle on the Ice'. The Teutonic Order sought to expand east into the Principality of Novgorod in the early 13th century, but they underestimated the will of the northern Russians.

The clash at Lake Peipus on the Novgorodian-Estonian frontier was an attempt by the Teutonic Order to expand into the Principality of Novgorod and convert Orthodox Russians to Catholicism. It was an outgrowth of the so-called Northern Crusades whereby the Catholic Church supported military orders in their attempts to control the pagan peoples of the eastern Baltic region.

The successful advance of the crusaders sparked great alarm in Novgorod. In response the city’s veche (popular assembly) sent a request to Alexander’s father that he order his son to return to Novgorod to lead the defense of the principality. Alexander was reinforced by his brother Andrey. With the addition of Andrey’s troops, Alexander had an army of 5,000 men. The Russian army was composed of 800 druzhina cavalry, 200 Novgorod horsemen, 800 Novgorod infantry, 2,000 feudal infantry, and 1,200 horse archers.

Alexander and his brother quickly gathered their forces and returned to Novgorod by the most direct route marching across the frozen surface of Lake Peipus. Ice, which thaws and refreezes piled up against the eastern shore of the lake forming a series of jagged peaks and ridges. Alexander deployed his army behind the jagged ice floes as a defensive barrier facing west to receive the crusader attack.

The crusaders attacked in their traditional blunt wedge formation known as a 'boar’s snout' crashing with great force into the Russian line, trampling many of the Russian militia in the center. The knights on their great steeds with their heavy broad swords cut down the infantry all around them, slaying large numbers of Russians. The German knights sought to reach Prince Alexander, but he was safely positioned with the reserve.

Although heavily outmatched by the German knights, the Novgorod infantry did not break. Sensing that his center was in serious danger, Alexander ordered his light cavalry stationed on both flanks to encircle the crusaders and their allies. The lightly armored horsemen of the Russian army advanced onto the ice to carry out the prince’s order. The horse archers who were deployed in the Russian right wing fired thick showers of arrows into the gray sky that whistled downward at high velocity into the enemy ranks.

Though the crusaders attack soon bogged down they reached the midst of the archers, and their swords began cutting helmets apart. Many from both sides fell dead. Eventually the German knights were surrounded by Russians and twenty of the crusader knights died and six were captured, The crusaders lost 45 percent of their force. The Russian foot soldiers bore the brunt of the Novgorodian casualties. The German knights fought well but were nonetheless cut down. Alexander’s defeat of the crusaders on the frozen shore of Lake Peipus put an abrupt halt to the eastward expansion of the Teutonic Order.

Today one can see the 'Battle on the Ice' depicted in a great mosaic measuring fourteen feet in height by thirty feet in width on the wall of the entry hall or the St. Petersburg subway in Russia. It's one of the most inspired and beautiful mosaics in existence.

On January 1st, 1708 King Charles XII of Sweden crossing of the frozen Vistula River at the head of 40,000 men, half of them cavalry. His tactics relied on moving armies with great speed, reaching the city of Grodno, now in Belarus, just one month into the campaign. He arrived in the city two hours after Russian forces had abandoned it.

The invasion was thwarted by the scorched earth strategy employed by Russia's king Peter the Great and his generals. Peter retreated deeper into Russia while dispersing the cattle, hiding the grain, and burning unharvested crops, leaving no resources for the Swedish army to stave off the Russian winter.

By the end of the winter of 1708 and the "Great Frost of 1709" the Swedish army had shrunk to 24,000 men. In May 1709, the Swedish forces clashed with the Russians in the Battle of Poltava and the greater part of Charles's army, some 19,000 men, were forced to surrender.

Charles fled with his surviving 543 men to the protection of the Ottoman Turks to the south, who were traditionally hostile to Russia. Charles was able to persuade the Sultan Ahmed III to declare war on Russia. Backed by a Turkish army of 200,000 men, Charles led the Turks into the Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711). Before Charles could engage the Russians in battle, King Peter was able to bribe the Turkish vizier to withdraw his support of Charles XII king of Sweden ending his ambitions to invade Russia resulting in the complete collapse of the Swedish armies and the loss of Sweden’s status as a great power.

On June 24, 1812 Napoleon entered Russia with 650,000 Grande Armée soldiers thinking it would only take a few weeks to defeat the Russian people. The Russians didn't truly make a stand until September 7th in the Battle of Borodino 75 miles from Moscow. After inflicting some 40,000 French casualties the Russians withdrew leaving the road to Moscow open.

On September 14, the Grande Armée entered the capital of Moscow, only to find a burned and desolate city. Napoleon's forces had dwindled down to some 100,000 troops. His soldiers had been wounded, captured or killed, and many had deserted. Napoleon led his shrinking army out of Moscow on October 19, attempting a southerly retreat but was forced back the way he came by constant Russian attacks. He found no food along his rout of retreat nor in the burned-out city of Smolensk. By this point Napoleon's Calvery horses were dying in the hundreds every day and his Grande Armée’s flanks and rear guard were under constant attack by Russian snipers.

The winter came unusually early with high winds, sub-zero temperatures, and heavy snows. Night after night hundreds of men and horses died in the bitter Russian cold. Some soldiers sliced open the bellies of hearses, removed the entrails and crawling inside for a few minutes of life-giving warmth. As the bitter Russian winter dragged on it became a situation of constant attrition, constant death.

In late November, the Grande Armée had lost thousands more men and left the wounded behind as they crossing the frigid Berezina River. After that it became every man for himself. On December 5, Napoleon put his dwindling Grande Armée under the command of Joachim Murat and fled back to Paris. Nine days later the remnant of the Grande Armée, some 10,000 men made it back across the Niemen River and into France.

Emboldened by the French defeat, Austria, Prussia and Sweden re-joined Russia and Great Britain in the fight against Napoleon. Although the French emperor was able to raise another massive army it was short on both cavalry and experience. Napoleon suffered another crushing defeat in October 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig. By the following March, Paris had been captured and Napoleon was forced into exile on the island of Elba.

On June 22, 1941 with France defeated and only Britain left standing against Germany in Western Europe, Hitler turned toward his next goal—Germany’s expansion into the Eastern Front, and the lebensraum (“living space”) that would ensure the dominance of the German people. This required the defeat of the Soviet Union and the colonization of its territories, especially the resource-rich Ukraine, by “Aryan” Germans rather than its native Slavic population, which Hitler viewed as racially inferior.

Hitler issued Führer Directive 21, an order for Germany’s planned invasion of the Soviet Union. Codenamed Operation Barbarossa—after the nickname of the powerful Medieval Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. The invasion called for German troops to advance along a line running north-south from the port of Archangel to the port of Astrakhan on the Volga River, near the Caspian Sea. Over 3 million German troops entered Russia with the most powerful invasion force in history, consisting of nineteen panzer divisions, 3,000 tanks, 2,500 aircraft, and 7,000 artillery pieces across a thousand-mile front.

The Germans practiced a policy of scorched earth killing some thirty million Russian civilians as they advanced deep into Russian territory. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler predicted a quick victory. Hitler's men invaded Russia initially wearing summer uniforms assuming they could defeat Russia before winter.

After some initial success, the campaign quickly bogged down both figuratively and physically in cold rainy weather and thick deep mud that made the movement of men and equipment slow and laborious. Eventually the German campaign ground to a halt due to the tenacity of the Russian soldiers and the harsh winter conditions.

One German commander writing home to his family said that the Russians fought like demons charging fearlessly into gunfire, stopping at nothing to kill German soldiers, often completing their mission before falling dead after being shot many times.

The Germans suffered seven hundred and fifty thousand causalities with two million two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers taken prisoner. The German prisoners died from starvation, exposure, and disease in the Russian prisoner of war camps. When only five thousand German prisoners remained alive the Russians released them to walk back home to Germany.

Hitler's invasion of Russia would prove to be a fatal miscalculation. Instead of bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the surrender of Britain it led directly to the eventual defeat of Germany.

On August 7th, 2008 just before midnight, Mikheil Saakashvili launched an attack on Tskhinvali, the provincial capital of South Ossetia, a small mountainous 3,900 square kilometer territory on the southern side of the Caucasus range with a population of 100,000. South Ossetia had seceded from Georgia in 1992 in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It had its own government largely staffed by Russian state employees with many Russian towns and villages and thousands of ethnic Russians.

Tensions grew, after 36 year old American-educated Mikheil Saakashvili became Georgia's President in 2004. Saakashvili didn't recognize South Ossetia's independence and claimed the territory as part of Georgia. The United States—an active ally of Georgia and President Saakashvili, passed a Congressional resolution defending Georgia's right to territorial integrity, condemning the Russian people who had made their homes in independent Ossetia as illegal occupiers of Georgia. President Bush offered Saakashvili $1 billion in humanitarian aid and assistance.

Saakashvili made a speech offering South Ossetia "unlimited autonomy," which would later be guaranteed by Russia. However, on the night of August 7th Georgia launched an artillery barrage and a ground assault of infantry. The Georgian attack had devastated the residential area of Tskhinvali in South Ossetia where many Russian families lived. 1,000-1,200 South Ossetians and Russians had been killed and thousands fled their homes to avoid the brutal ethnic cleansing.

Mikheil Saakashvili's army of approximately 50,000 men with the help of 7000 Israeli and US special forces soldiers had invaded eleven Russian towns and villages in South Ossetia and Abkhazians burning hundreds of Russian homes with the terrified families huddled inside. The Russian men were killed, and the surviving women and children ordered out onto the interstate to walk over the border back to Russia. As they walked, American Abrams tanks came up behind them at a high speed and ran them over. It was suspected the tanks were driven by Israelis.

The Georgian government declared it was acting as any sovereign and independent state would to defend itself against violent secessionists and Russian aggression. South Ossetians accused Georgia of deceitfulness and treachery.

When Putin was told how Russian women and children had been run down by American tanks he became enraged. He called all the Russian generals to meet with him in the Moscow Kremlin where they decided to bring every available Russian weapon to bear against Georgia, with the exception of nuclear missiles. Although the old Soviet Union had collapsed, and Russia was greatly weakened the Russians retaliated with the full might of their remaining army and Airforce against the forces of Georgia, America, and Israel.

The Russians used tens of thousands of old Katyusha rockets they had stored in warehouses since World War two. For seventy-two hours Katyushas rained down on Georgia. Secret Russian weapons were also used to literally melt the American Abrams tanks down to their treads. When the three-day rain of death had ended, there wasn't a tree or a blade of grass remaining where military bases had once stood. Mikheil Saakashvili's army had been devastated along with the Americans and Israelis. Saakashvili's defeat resulted in Georgia's loss of all claims to the separatist regions in the Caucasus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Putin had a special message for the globalists and their puppet politicians. He said: "We will not allow any country to invade our cities and kill our people, to run over Russia women and children with tanks. Any country that invades Russian cities and attacks our people will face the full might of the Russian military and will be annihilated." It would seem that America, NATO, and their globalist masters have forgotten the lessons learned by those who would invade Russia.

The globalist proxy army of Ukrainians and American mercenaries are not fighting the dilapidated cold war era Russian army that Saakashvili fought. They are fighting a modern one million, four hundred thousand man Russian military armed with advanced weaponry. The Ukrainians call themselves Nazis. They have forgotten what Russia did to the German Nazis. None of the forces that invaded Kursk will leave Russia alive. They will be exterminated before they can make it back across the boarder.

Full video of the defeat of Ukrainian armor column in Kursk:

Destroyed in one day:
- 7 x BTR-4 “Bucephalus”
- 1 x BTR-4 "Bucephalus" - trophy
- 1 x M113 APC
- 1 x Pickup
- l/s up to 50 pic.twitter.com/ye2DZbqjFi

— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) August 13, 2024

River of blood in Kursk: Ukrainian invasion force decimated – Over 2,000 dead – “There will be no mercy” Moscow declares

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