[lodi90]

Russia is far too corrupt and inbred to ever threaten Europe. If Europe falls it will be from within due to immigration.

[Zhang Fei]

[Russia is far too corrupt and inbred to ever threaten Europe. If Europe falls it will be from within due to immigration.]

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Russia/Greater Novgorod has been corrupt and inbred throughout its whole existence. Somehow it managed to swallow up most of the old Mongol Empire (80% of its territory) and defeat multiple European Great Powers including France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and supplant the Kievan Rus (i.e. proto-Ukraine), which used to be the Slavic power in its neighborhood.

I’d say that institutionally speaking, Russia is set up as a despotism wired for territorial conquest. That’s why, like China, only the complete dismantlement of the empire, with its component parts becoming independent countries, will end the threat. Barring that, we can only guard against them and arm the targets of their ambitions where we aren’t explicitly allied with those targets. Russia’s wars are clumsy, inefficient and inelegant. But by the end of its campaigns, it is bigger, land- and population-wise, and the free world is smaller. That’s why we can’t ignore Russia’s military expeditions.