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Russia is fighting to keep their imperial status. The truth is the Russian empire died in 1991 and for the last 20 years Putin has been putting post-mortem make-up on the corpse, but the layers are so thick now they are scaling off in pieces.
A country which has failed not only as a military power, but as a state which does not meet any requirements of a human society, as a cultural phenomenon (they have 19th century literature, maybe some Tarkovsky movies, all of it is in the past), and most importantly, a country which has nothing to offer to the world ideologically (USSR had communism, US has liberalism) -- Russia cannot be the center of any empire.
They should abandon all imperial ambitions (like all European empires have done) and build a purely Russian ethnic state. Since they hate gays: modernization without westernization, like Japan, which is openly racist and pedophile.
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- See above. They had, potentially, one of the richest, most accomplished and educated countries in the world and.. where the fuck did all the money go?Nairn
- Properties in London?drgs
- Yep. And after 2022 the demographics would make drafting a large army difficult.shapesalad
- Day Watch and Night Watch were good movies, but a whole country can't rest on those. :-)PhanLo
- as soon as i saw, :the truth is", i stopped reading - sorry!toemaas
- But first they should go fuck themselves.allthethings
- I thought Red Heat sorted out any cultural issues the Russians had?!Ianbolton
- Red Heat and Hasselhoff ended the cold war :-)PhanLo