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enid602

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2. Russia

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 01:37 AM

Mar 2014

Actually, I think Russia is not so much like pre WWII Germany, but rather more similar to the pre WWI Ottoman Empire. An empire which has outlasted its usefulness, filled with corruption, not keeping up economically and bent on keeping what tatters of prestige it still enjoys. Is Russia a dynamic, industrial powerhouse (like Hitler's Germany) which is seeking 'breathing room,' or is it clinging to maintain its archaic system of 'client states,' knowing that if it is unsuccessful it will ultimately have to defend a long, virtually indefensible border to keep out the hordes.

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