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Okay - Putin plays the long game. Russia is the last standing of the Great Powers of pre WWI and it shows in their thinking. The noise will be temporary, diamo
by venomsnake 13y ago
Okay - Putin plays the long game. Russia is the last standing of the Great Powers of pre WWI and it shows in their thinking.
The noise will be temporary, diamonds and crimea are forever. Putin's bet is that the US-centric world is coming to an end and that the powers that rise are much more like the powers of times past.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoAre you not forgetting about fall of USSR?
- venomsnake 13y agoNope I didn't. But this as with the chaos after WWI were just temporarily setbacks. Whereas GB, France and Germany geopolitical power is greatly diminished and in no way recovering.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Russia is the last standing of the Great Powers of pre WWI and it shows in their thinking. Russia now isn't the same except in approximate geography to any pre-WWI great power, whereas both the United Kingdom and the United States (generally regarded as a great power since at least the Spanish-American War) have continuity of regime (though the former has shed much of its pre-WWI empire.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoThe UK's shed all of its empire, aside from a few islands.
- venomsnake 13y agoUS was not considered a great power before WWI and UK declined a lot after WWII. And while Russia may have had changes of regime it have had very consistent pursuing of its interests. After all the Ribbentrop Molotov pack would have been signed no matter if the tzars were in power or Stalin.