If history is any guide, Russia's neighbours ought to be arming their borders.pic.twitter.com/I7LHhFeDej
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If history is any guide, Russia's neighbours ought to be arming their borders.pic.twitter.com/I7LHhFeDej
Russia's neighbors are practically all in the NATO, which means that Russia cannot attack them unless they are worth less to the West than the cost of replacing Russian oil and gas exports to Germany.
if there ever were a time when such things were going to happen, it would probably be in a period of uniform global instability right
And a sudden shortage of money to pay the army.
The US has no shortage of money, money is not a natural resource
I was referring to Russia.
How is a shortage of money to pay the Russian army going to fund the expensive invasion of neighboring states?
Military adventurism has its own immediate rewards.
I doubt that this would be true in any war between first world countries. The margins that you can extract from an occupied region over the cost of violently establishing and maintaining occupation are non existent.
In the long term, yes. But we’re not going for efficiency here. Autocrats who face upheaval at home tend to invade their neighbours. It’s kind of the historical norm.
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