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0 pointsivan_gammel2y ago0 comments

>Russia is a gigantic country with vast resources that isn’t bordered by Europe

Maybe you should look at the map before writing such nonsense.

1. Russia does have borders both with EU and NATO. Norway, Finland, Baltic states, Poland.

2. Russia is geographically in Europe too. Most of its population and the capital are in Europe.

Among European countries it does have the largest territory, population and nuclear arsenal, but it is not even the biggest economy. Ex-superpower is not a now-superpower. Mindset-wise it has a lot in common with other EU members.

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treflop2y ago· 2 in thread

Obviously Russia borders Europe. How do you do a land invasion of Europe without bordering Europe?

But Russia isn’t Germany whose borders are completely dominated by Europe.

Putin obviously thinks Russia should still be a superpower. People get that mentality when they see the past and think they deserve it again. Holy shit people love the “glory days.”

There are conflicts that have been going on for millennia like in the Middle East and they fight today because their ancestors fought.

People have a hard on for the past.

You’ll teach someone command line Git starting out and they love it and they will never bother with a GUI because they value their experience more than practicality.

tim3332y ago

Russia is a still a superpower in many ways, certainly in nukes. It's a shame though they feel the need to grab territory which seems a bit nineteenth century. I put it down to Putin reading too many old history books instead of Pinker and Gladwell. The US manages to be a superpower without feeling the need to invade Canada because they have a similar culture and try to have democracy there rather than being ruled from Washington.

lenkite2y ago

The US just carries out its wars overseas - not on its next-door neighbors. Whenever the stock price of the Big-3 War Companies drop, the senators and congressmen are encouraged to find an excuse for bombings.

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Sammi2y ago

You misread that sentence.

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