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Trump was good for stocks and crypto. Biden is making us traders poor. :mjcry:

Soviets pimped up Moscow and let the rest of the country rot. Reminds me of a certain Somali Socialist Dictator.

This is what Moscow's subway system looks like: :dead:

Traditional Russian architecture is kind of nice.

Chechens are just ethnic Russian Muslims. :fittytousand:

Why not, with that much more territory and power? Russia is willing to take Turkic areas. Crimea was heavily Turkic.

Nuclear weapons and American hegemony has made geopolitics boring. If these two factors weren't there, we would see a dog eats dog version of geopolitics.

A Somali version of Putin would go for all the purple areas, lol:

If we had a powerful Somalia today and we attacked Ethiopia today 99% of this forum would celebrate it. Even if we went into non-Somali areas like the Afar or Oromo territories.

Western publics have become anti-war. He might call their bluff. Putin seems to have gone insane.

Anybody here also have some older relatives with Soviet ties? I hear Russia used to sponsor some Somali students back in the day. :hmm: @Aurelian

Were you guys aware that the presidents of Kazakhstan have been engineering the demographics of Kazakhstan the past decades giving big perks to ethnic Kazakhs living abroad to come back in order to lower the % of ethnic Russians? Smart move in retrospect. Kek, also check this out (actually...

Moldova Georgia . . . Kazakhstan . . . Baltics (this would be nuts, due to NATO membership).

I bet racist ass Western Europeans will not make a big fuss about huge numbers of Ukrainian refugees, while they had a temper tantrum when it came to Syrians.

Communists were in power back then. Today's Russia is center-right/rightwing and more like the Czar days (pre-communism).

The guy who created the rules-based international order was a racist, even for the standards of the time: He even disliked Italians for racial reasons. :mjlol:

Russians are naturally melancholic and tolerate poverty. They aren't like Westerners.

This may drag on and it can continue to go lower. However, Putin obviously made plans to invade Ukraine last summer, he already sold a long time ago and so did all of his cronies: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

TAIWAN!!