To: FBD
Indeed, Russia was an Empire but it works in a different way than any other known Empire which is usually about to make a metropolis profit off it’s colonies. Russian Empire was always about security and buffer zones. They haven’t earned a dime from their colonies but actually spent a lot to keep them. I guess average Ivan is doing much better now, as far as he is not supporting welfare state in East Germany, Vietnam and Ukraine.
To: wetphoenix
Wow...... a Freeper that understands. The post is worth repeating.
-----Indeed, Russia was an Empire but it works in a different way than any other known Empire which is usually about to make a metropolis profit off it’s colonies. Russian Empire was always about security and buffer zones. They haven’t earned a dime from their colonies but actually spent a lot to keep them. I guess average Ivan is doing much better now, as far as he is not supporting welfare state in East Germany, Vietnam and Ukraine.-----
55 posted on
03/30/2014 5:08:17 AM PDT by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: wetphoenix; bert
Russian Empire was always about security and buffer zones. Bingo.
56 posted on
03/30/2014 5:37:40 AM PDT by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: wetphoenix
Hold on now. Cronyism is alive and well in Russia. They've been taking public lands and giving them to their buddies to build private estates. Gazprom awarded contracts with Ukrainian natural gas and gave them to Putins Russian crony capitalists. Yanukovich took 15 billion from the Ukrainian people before he fled to Mother Russia. . Putin is now worth $75 billion, according to reports. Nothing the Russians do, is based on altruism.
60 posted on
03/31/2014 9:13:30 AM PDT by
FBD
To: wetphoenix
61 posted on
03/31/2014 9:18:11 AM PDT by
FBD
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