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Russians didn’t think about Ukraine either twenty years ago. The ancient Slav connection mythology is manufactured by the Putinist project. When a place is a v
by pavlov 5y ago
Russians didn’t think about Ukraine either twenty years ago. The ancient Slav connection mythology is manufactured by the Putinist project.
When a place is a void in the public’s mind, that’s the ideal target to fill it with nationalist fury. The people of Belgrade didn’t think very often about Bosnia in 1980; thirteen years later their leaders were running a genocide to cleanse Bosnia of the elements that supposedly threatened Serbian unity.
- tablespoon 5y agoEven so, I think Mexico would be a far more logical first target in that scenario than Canada, especially if the Canadians took pains not to annoy the new leaders.
- pavlov 5y agoClimate change makes Canada much more useful than Mexico. The United States has enough arid desert already.
- tablespoon 5y ago> Climate change makes Canada much more useful than Mexico. The United States has enough arid desert already. Yeah, but that's moving the goalposts. I was only commenting on suitability as a target for "a war to fuel the nationalist fire." There are already hooks for that w.r.t. Mexico, but they'd have to be created out of whole cloth for Canada.
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