>>512867230Because when empires fall, the heartland keeps all the institutions and wealth, while the new independent have to start from scratch.
Look at all the shitholes which got freedom from the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish empires. The European powers stayed ok, while the colonies started from scratch.
Russia, as the last remaining European empire, is undergoing the same fall, though is lashing out more in an attempt to buy a few more decades.
>tranny faggot shillLmao, Russia has institutionalised gay rape and African-tier AIDS levels. Sit the fuck down.
>georgia started itAlways somebody else to blame... Russians are like Palestinians - always the eternal victim.