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Old 01-23-2024, 04:23 PM
 
Location: In the north country fair
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Russia is already the largest country in terms of geographic size. Does Putin think more land is somehow going to benefit Russia? How?!
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Old 01-23-2024, 04:44 PM
 
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It's better if Alaska stays in the hands of the evil white colonists, right? Should it be given back to the asiatics?
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Old 01-23-2024, 04:48 PM
 
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Putin is crazy, isn't the war in Ukraine enough for him?
I know it's crazy. As if Europe wasn't enough for white folks. Blah Blah Blah. Like Patton said we fought the wrong enemy in WW2. Although of course the Soviet Union doesn't exist, and the remnants of the bolsheviks who created all left after it collapsed. Guess where they moved to?
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Old 01-23-2024, 04:56 PM
 
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Russia is already the largest country in terms of geographic size. Does Putin think more land is somehow going to benefit Russia? How?!
I'd suspect it's more about gaining control of lucrative resource extraction infrastructure someone else has already assumed the risks of investing in (petroleum/gas industry, commercially valuable minerals), not the land. I'm sure the land would be of little to no interest if it wasn't producing something.

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Old 01-23-2024, 05:13 PM
 
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I know it's crazy. As if Europe wasn't enough for white folks. Blah Blah Blah. Like Patton said we fought the wrong enemy in WW2. Although of course the Soviet Union doesn't exist, and the remnants of the bolsheviks who created all left after it collapsed. Guess where they moved to?
Ann Arbor?
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Old 01-23-2024, 06:11 PM
 
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No one cares what Putin thinks. He's not a good person.
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Old 01-23-2024, 06:29 PM
 
Location: In the north country fair
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I'd suspect it's more about gaining control of lucrative resource extraction infrastructure someone else has already assumed the risks of investing in (petroleum/gas industry, commercially valuable minerals), not the land. I'm sure the land would be of little to no interest if it wasn't producing something.
I thought about that as well but, even if the infrastructure is already in place, it needs to manned and maintained, and I don’t think that Russia is capable.

At this point, it really does seem like Putin is just engaging in desperate land grabs.
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Old 01-23-2024, 06:40 PM
 
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I remember Vladimir Zhirinovsky making the same claim back in the 1990s. It smacks of Argentina and the Falklands - cheap rabble-rousing that appeals to the nationalist rubes, but is transparently pitiful.
But that situation ultimately led to a major war
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Old 01-23-2024, 06:41 PM
 
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It's better if Alaska stays in the hands of the evil white colonists, right? Should it be given back to the asiatics?
Evil white colonists? Using a term like Asiatics? Come on
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Old 01-23-2024, 06:43 PM
 
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Ann Arbor?
Very few Marxists in the US.
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