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2022-07-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Frank G 2022-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 I wonder if they have the demographics, or rather the positive population growth, to make this a practical goal? How do you convince the 'other Slavs' that they secretly have always been Russian?

Posted by magpie 2022-07-11 00:47|| 2022-07-11 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 They do not, magpie.

From the CIA World Factbook’s Russia page:

Median age

total: 40.3 years

male: 37.5 years

female: 43.2 years (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 52

Population growth rate

-0.22% (2022 est.)

country comparison to the world: 213

Birth rate

9.45 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)

country comparison to the world: 194

Death rate

13.36 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)

country comparison to the world: 7

Total fertility rate

1.6 children born/woman (2022 est.)

country comparison to the world: 184

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-11 01:27|| 2022-07-11 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems that Russia is doing pointless things to distract its own citizens from its own problems.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-11 06:41|| 2022-07-11 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Typical Russophobic bullshit from a Russia-hating neo-conservative Jewish emigre.

No one is looking to restore the Soviet Empire. The war in Ukraine is a civil war that is focused on Crimea and the base at Sevastopol: that base belongs to Russia, and Crinea's residents have made it clear that they wish to be part of Russia.

That and the pro-Russian Donbas territory defines the totality of Russia's interests. Not Finland or Poland. Not western Ukraine. Just the strategic regions of Crimea and the southeastern adjoining regions whose residents want no part of the kleptocratic shithole that us Ukraine.

Posted by Muggsy Joling9750 2022-07-11 08:05|| 2022-07-11 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 That and the pro-German Sudetenland territory defines the totality of Germany's interests.

Been there, seen it, done it. Nothing changes. Man will remain hierarchical, tribal and territorial.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-11 08:40|| 2022-07-11 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 But what about the children?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-11 08:41|| 2022-07-11 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Before the Sudetenland there was Italia Irredenta!

Posted by magpie 2022-07-11 09:23|| 2022-07-11 09:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The war in Ukraine is a civil war...

It's a rare civil war that starts with multiple lines of invasion from a foreign nation made up solely of foreign troops. Perhaps the first of its kind.

(And why would people who object to Ukrainian kleptocracy opt for Russian kleptocracy?)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-11 09:49|| 2022-07-11 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war. Ukraine has it's own nationalism and will be free of the Russians.

They have had for centuries now, Stalin damn near starved them to death to bring them to their knees.

God Bless Ukraine, I pray they win this war and that justice is done to Russians for being this cruel and brutal in an unprovoked war.

Posted by Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-07-11 10:22|| 2022-07-11 10:22|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-07-11 10:24|| 2022-07-11 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 ,e.#10 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war. Ukraine has it's own nationalism and will be free of the Russians.

Little known fact apparently, America had a foreign power fighting with us during the revolutionary war (France, there were others too!)

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-11 12:40|| 2022-07-11 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 It's a civil war just like the USA resisting British rule was a civil war.

Except the USA hadn't been an independent nation before the Revolution. And, again, it didn't start with columns of French soldiers marching into the colonies claiming they were "liberating" us.

Russia invaded the Ukraine. The war there is an invasion. Sovereign nation A was invaded by sovereign nation B. That's not a civil war.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-11 16:37|| 2022-07-11 16:37|| Front Page Top

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