>>17832217I still believe China can give us a run for our money and the tendency of the world is towards a state of balance. Their economy is having trouble now but they'll land on their feet. I like Russians (especially crazy Russians) but Russia as a country is funnily imitative to me. It's like looking into the past. The case for the war doesn't make any sense and reminds me of the Bush administration (Putin always admired Bush btw) which got its dick trapped in Iraq and made increasingly absurd arguments about it. People more and more stopped believing in their bullshit. They have this whole thing about being provoked into the war, and it's like, then why did you allow yourself to be provoked?
>>17832695Russia's mentality is imperial and all empires are multiethnic. Russian ethnic nationalism risks accelerating centrifugal forces in the empire causing it to split up, which is why the government cracks down on it. The ideal of the government is Russians, Chechens, Tuvans and Buryats doing flips in trad wheat fields to clunky 1970s Soviet-style chord progression and a singer with vodka/cig voice:
https://youtu.be/RVrQUu7Vfuo