> this time the Adriatic Sea is an American hegemonic lake Yeah, good point, even though I hadn't realised it. And to share some more about my recent new kno

> this time the Adriatic Sea is an American hegemonic lake Yeah, good point, even though I hadn't realised it. And to share some more about my recent new knowledge on Russia and on the Soviet system, and also related to Albania, I was a little surprised to learn that one of the reasons used to de-throne Khrushchev in the autumn of 1964 was the Albanian–Soviet split [1] that he, supposedly, had helped create. I say I was surprised because I didn't think the highest echelons of power in Moscow cared that much about a country from their hegemonic "periphery", so to speak, one that wasn't directly geographically confronting the West, like Czechoslovakia or the GDR. To be honest I don't see almost anyone attacking the US President for "losing" a current peripheral ally that is part of their hegemonic area. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian%E2%80%93Soviet_split https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian%E2%80%93Soviet_split