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Sunspark
4y ago
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Once you pay the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
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toyg
4y ago
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Ukraine will never get rid of its continent-sized neighbour, no matter what.
lostmsu
4y ago
Nah, if Russia experiences a strong economic downturn, it may fall apart.
toyg
4y ago
It already fell apart once, post-USSR, and it recovered. Russia is like China: it's too culturally coesive over too big an area not to eventually coalesce into a powerful entity sooner or later.
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