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> Russia has the ability to take large swathes of territory early, absorb it, and start moving Russians into that territory while continuously sieging major cit
by shaky-carrousel 5y ago
> Russia has the ability to take large swathes of territory early, absorb it, and start moving Russians into that territory while continuously sieging major cities.
Not anymore, with their economy collapsed.
- hadlock 5y agoRussia's globalized economy has been snubbed, but russia is perfectly capable of deeding prime farmland to existing successful russian farmers. When it comes to tractors and fuel, russia has these in spades
- rectang 5y agoWas this done in Chechnya? EDIT: Turns out it's the opposite — Chechnya has far fewer ethnic Russians than it used to. It's now less than 2% ethnic Russian. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/left-behind-russian-life-chechnya/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/left-behind-russian-lif... > According to official figures, in 1979 over 30% of the population of Soviet Chechnya were ethnic Russians. By 1989 the figure had fallen, although not by much – they still made up 25% of the population. In 2002, however, less than four percent of residents were Russian, and by 2010 Chechnya was losing its Russian population faster than any other North Caucasus republic. It was, effectively, a mono-ethnic member of the Russian Federation.
- hadlock 5y agoA lot of post soviet bloc countries have lost double-digit percentages of their population to emigration over the last thirty years, so it's hard to draw any conclusions here, is my guess.
- jcranmer 5y agoSo doing something like what Zimbabwe did? Which turned that country from the breadbasket of Africa to the basket case of Africa?
- lazide 5y agoThe people who were ‘gifted’ Zimbabwe farms weren’t farmers.
- lmm 5y agoWhat Zimbabwe did was the opposite of turning land over to existing successful farmers.
- jcranmer 5y agoGiven the history of other things turned over to other people in Putin's rule of Russia, I suspect Putin would be more likely to turn land over to successfully supportive farmers than successful farmers, which is what Zimbabwe did.