Does Russia still have bombers in VZ?

@Waffle Evil Anatoly Karlin had a post recently talking about how Putin's actions in Crimea were the best of a bunch of bad options

if he hadn't moved to annex Crimea, Ukraine would still be oriented towards the E.U. AND the Russians would have been evicted from Crimea by now

Crimea was too strategically valuable for Russia to give up

True. He also got his approval ratings back up in Russia by annexing Crimea

@mattforney Yeah Plus Again Crimea is predominantly Russian and from what I remember Ukraine in Kiev was more or less taken over by actual neo-Nazis

Then he used the backlash to clean house and get rid of dissidents

demographically, Russia is fucked. the Russian minorities in all the ex-Soviet states are shrinking, reducing the justification for seizing lebensraum

Russia is more Islamised than Sweden. Now Muslims make up 30% of Russians. almost 50% in the military.

Putin wouldn’t have that much resistance. The Russians in Ukraine were told to: “go back to Russia.” They asked Putin to and they went back

Ukraine has been Ukrainizing since the fall of the USSR: Western Ukraine has had higher birthrates and a stronger economy than Eastern Ukraine for years, meaning that Euromaidan was a demographic inevitability

@Waffle Evil Totally they also have a lot more autonomy

the Russian minority in Kazakhstan is also shrinking: the Kazakh SSR was something like 45 percent Russian and 40 percent Kazakh, now Russians are less than 20 percent of the population

Wow and Kazakhstan is a pretty big chunk right?

It’s one of the bigger stans

Russia is The Rust Belt if it were a country

Yeah, Daily reminder that Putin is just another globalist cuck Who postures like an alpha when he’s 5’7.

Belarus is Belarusizing: Lukashenko is now encouraging everyone to use the Belarusian language while he plays footsie with Russia, China, and the E.U.

@Waffle Evil 😆

the Russians have Armenia and that's pretty much it at this point

largely because Armenians have historically seen Russia as their protector

Armenia fits one of Russia's friend criteria: orthodox religion

@mattforney yes but the real question is.... does Russia have Logos? LMFAO

@Waffle Evil agreed

@Waffle Evil But so is Georgia

Only if Russia goes back to Slavic paganism lol

@Waffle Evil rodnovar is makin’ a comeback people

the Russian Empire historically acted as the protector of Orthodox minorities in the Middle East, chiefly Armenians

Russia is already Orthodox. How much more Slavic Pagan do you want? lol

@mattforney yeah especially after the Ottomans fell

that was a major impetus for the Armenian Genocide: the Ottomans saw the Armenians as a potential fifth column in World War I

@Deleted User Georgia got seized by pro-Western forces because it didn't rely on Russia for protection

@mattforney ahh ok thanks

Armenia would be toast in less than a week were it not for the Russian military

they beat the Azeris in the Nagorno-Karabakh War back in the early 90's but because the Azeris are now flush with oil money their military spending is now exponentially higher than Armenia's state budget

the only reason the Azeris don't invade right now is because the Russians would kick the shit out of them, guaranteed

@mattforney yep

Russia still has a military base in Armenia

@White Wolf aka Purple Man You reminded me of this meme:

there's some speculation that the new Armenian government will go in the direction of Georgia and decouple from Russia. I don't see that as likely mainly because doing so would be suicidal