Posted on 05/27/2006 11:51:48 PM PDT by Srirangan
Absolutely, you are right but as I know Russians they wont understand. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once very big as well and despite that the Poles were not outnumbered as you wrote, the were unable to control all their lands. Finally their enemies from the west and the east got advantage of this weakness and divided whole commonwealth. Once powerful state was vanished from the maps for more than 100 years.
Not true in the Orthodox Christian faith, you'll not find either!
Shrinking would work, but it would require the overcoming of vampirial... er, imperial, hubris, and would only exacerbate the already existing civilizational inferiority complex.
They should learn that it is a death cult that does not permit deprogramming. There is a death sentence for muslims who convert away from Islam.
Sounds like the same things that attract people to Socialism and Communism.
Is it any wonder?
My highest probability predictions are:
- core Russia stays Christian,
- but Russia loses its southern belt to the majority Muslim countries it has long dominated, and, just as importantly,
- loses Siberia to the Chinese.
- The Causcasus becomes a no-man's land for a century or more.
This has been a projection for decades now. Many of the Russian republics (not the former USSR republics) are majority Turkic. Russia has four choices:
1- Make more Russian Babies,
2- Shed the Turkic republics,
3- Kill lots of Turks,
4- or just plain accept this fate.
What Russia really needs to do is shrink. It needs to give the Muslim parts of the empire their independence and put up minefields on the borders.==
You probably right.
<< i think discontent(anger) is the driving force personally... >>
And epidemically endemic alcoholism.
Sixty-five Per Cent of Russian men die drunk.
Russia, the Europeon part of which is but greater Eurabia's canary in the coal mine, is terminal and is in extremis.
The tribe, with the most babies; wins
The tribe, with the most babies; wins
Would you please explain your post 14. The reference to liberalism is what I don't understand. What I think you are saying is that liberalism somehow contributes to the "birth dearth".
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