• Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4010 months ago

    I love how they’ve been peddling the “warm water port” thing since the cold war. Soviets were somehow always expanding in order to get that holy land of a “warm water port” and if they got it they would take over the world.

    Now it turn out that the port was in ukraine the whole time! Dummy Soviets, you should have looked in your own country!

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        It’s the “the jews/christians and muslims have been fighting since time immemorial in Israel” lazy explanation to all conflict in a region customized for Russia (which is a frozen hellscape filled with gulags desperately thirsting for some warm water in the liberal mind).

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          1610 months ago

          I more meant in terms of Russia’s access to fresh water ports. They’re really in the catbird seat as the planet incinerates itself.

            • kristina [she/her]
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              10 months ago

              Except for the random explosions from methane pockets under the permafrost. Saw an interview of some siberians and they were like “oh yeah we hear massive explosions all the time from climate change, hope I’m not walking somewhere when one happens”. Said they hear one every week

              I also recall one study suggesting that the ‘new’ soil in Russia will not be arable and would need imported fertilizers to make any use of it.