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Look at the map. It's huge. In order to maintain its territorial integrity it has to act like a super power, or it has no reason to exist in its current form.
by anigbrowl 10mo ago
Look at the map. It's huge. In order to maintain its territorial integrity it has to act like a super power, or it has no reason to exist in its current form.
- fc417fc802 10mo agoAnd yet somehow Canada manages to get by without all the drama. Brazil as well.
- anigbrowl 10mo agoNot to talk down Canada, but they're not geographically comparable. Russia is almost twice as large and borders 14 countries. I don't mean this as an excuse for Russian behavior, but to explain why it has internalized the idea of imperialism.
- a96 10mo agoIt has stopped existing several times. And each time, the next version has turned out to act exactly the same again.