I’m so tired of people talking about “provoking Russia”. That is such a disgusting rhetorical maneuver to lift any responsibility from Russia, making it seem like Russia just reacts to actions of neighbours rather than contemplates invading neighbours for the crime of being neighbours of Russia. The only way to not provoke Russia is to be far enough from it, otherwise one will be living in “primordially Russian land”.
I like band idea, but I’d make it a big band of Voronoy pattern shaped islands, with just enough water in between for civilisations to ensure communication, but make invading each other a pain in the ass. Would probably also make some water regions shallow to act like some sort of water speed bump and limit seafaring capacity and force humans to eventually be building big ass bridges.
Would probably also make some outlier islands with difficult inhospitable terrain or climate to act as nature’s reserves.
You’re trying to analyze Russia with logic. And there’s Russian saying to that “One won’t understand Russia with mind” (or intellect).
It made zero sense to let territories occupied since 2014 to be run by banditry rather than make them propaganda projects. It made no sense to invade on full-scale rather than keep funding pro-Russian parties and eventually get another Hungary into EU. It makes absolutely no sense continuing the war. But Russia keeps doing that.
I do believe chance of Russia escalating into EU isn’t big, but it’s not a logical creature, it won’t calculate its chances.
If Elon started to shill out money for AfD just like he did for orange turd before US elections - then he’ll just be the second biggest donor after Russia, because Russia been at it for more than a decade now. 🌝
Well, on the other hand, users from .ml should be regarded as experts on avoiding inconvenient truths - their entire ideology is based off historical revisionism and “critical thinking” analysis of geopolitics.
To me funniest thing was Russia promising consequences for Montenegro joining NATO back in 2017. Such pre-WW1 vibes - “how dare you take this country that we wanted under our boot”.
For your typical Russian man that will quite often mean taking short term loans, being unable to repay them and getting forced to sign contract with army by debt collectors. Even recession is put to use in that misery machine of a country.
It kinda happened back in 2022. They packed vans with Rosgvardiya guys and sent them towards Kyiv. After all, Russians expected they’ll be done with Kyiv in 3 days and already sent these guys in to break protests.
Result: panty boys were well done, right in their riot gear and shit.