>>510803671
>Why in the fuck would they want to do that when they seemed perfectly content with selling Europe cheap energy sources.
its genuinely because theyre retarded, and blind with jealousy
the entire mysterious ruskie soul, and all of its modern history, can be boiled down to one thing: jealousy of wect
every major and minor decision in russias modern history was filtered through that
you even still see it nowadays. lebvedev will arbitrarily snap back into his old soviet rhetoric, talking about muh evil wectern imperialism (using examples from literal decades ago). meanwhile theyve been trying (and failing, in many cases) to implement their own neocolonialism all across africa for years now. literally just playing fake friends and strip-mining the cunts, straight out of the 18th/19th century british colonial playbook
the entire BRICSphere is just turdworldism, exported intlly either through predatory trade deals, or if that fails, by overwhelming violence
