Russia: A 100-Year Economic Inferiority Complex on Stilts
Or, Why Russia Choses Confrontation Over Competition
tl;dr:
(Russia’s clash with the West isn’t geographic — it’s economic
I’m just presenting you the state of Russian society. What you’ll do with it is yours. Understanding Russia is like knowing how it is to be raped. You can express empathy to rape victims and that’s good but you can only feel it when you yourself were.
Russian elites have freedom to do such things, that’s the reward for being partners in crime. This guy probably went too wide and too many parents of children that were abducted to his brothels were publicly pushing for justice so Putin had to flush him down the toilet. The difference between the west and Russia is that judges on the west are sometimes caught having cp, and the ones in Russia run chains of kid-brothels. You still want to eagerly approach them with tv democracy and the benefits of economic cooperation?
This guy was THE CHAIRMAN of a Council of Judges of Russia, so basically the AG
You still want to eagerly approach them with tv democracy and the benefits of economic cooperation?
Yes, that's what I said. And I also told you how I feel about this ethnical/cultural stuff. QcharlieKirk.
I don't think you understand that the people in the West see a lot if EE's not much differently than you see the Russians. So would you rather us not give you the benefit of the doubt?
Ok John12
Your revolution didn’t even start yet and you already want to silence me up like Stalin did to Trotsky, although I’m all for your case except I’m the realist in this revolution committee, comrade
Peak Democracy Incentives:
40 years of an on-site western indoctrination but a proud, Russian national is still standing! https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1978418432...
Your revolution didn’t even start yet and you already want to silence me up like Stalin did to Trotsky, although I’m all for your case except I’m the realist in this revolution committee, comrade
We don't have time because I doubt you'll be around for very much longer if you keep polluting every thread with this sort of ethnic bigotry and propaganda, comrade.
We don't have time because I doubt you'll be around for very much longer if you keep polluting every thread with this sort of ethnic bigotry and propaganda, comrade.
He's not wrong, QP
My last will: You both are a perfect example of why Putin plays the west like a donk. You are both smart and well read BUT you want to think in plausible terms, avoiding cognitive dissonance for all cost, cause it’s itchy in the brains, whereas I’m telling you what you’re dealing with when it goes to Russia and you want to bully me into silence. Polish gov, along with lintuanian, Latvian and Estonian one are going to be the ones who’ll deal with this problem, with military and financial support from the west of course, but in that order. You know why? Cause you don’t have any, literally any idea what Russia is
My last will: You both are a perfect example of why Putin plays the west like a donk. You are both smart and well read BUT you want to think in plausible terms, avoiding cognitive dissonance for all cost, cause it’s itchy in the brains, whereas I’m telling you what you’re dealing with when it goes to Russia and you want to bully me into silence. Polish gov, along with lintuania
I get what you’re saying, and I don’t doubt you’ve got a better feel for the Russian mindset than I do. But this isn't about morality at all. We don't give a crsp about being good. It's just our strategy. And this isn't our first tourney.
After WWII, everyone said Germany could never be trusted again, that the people were too broken, too obedient, too far gone… just like you're saying about the Russians… I'm sure you've seen those pictures. too. Same with Japan. And the U.S. almost alone said "No, Churchill et al we’re going to let them back up, rebuild them and give them a stake in the modern world. It wasn’t mercy; it was strategy." As I said we all saw those pictures.
You can say Russia’s different, and yeah, maybe it is. But people change when their incentives change. We’ve seen it over and over. Heck, there was serious pushback in Europe against letting Poland into NATO because it might “provoke Moscow.” The U.S. overrode that, too.
So when I say give Russia a mulligan, it’s not out of naivety or moral idealism. This is the geopolitical jungle not some feel. It’s just recognizing what’s worked before: stop trying to isolate the world’s problems, and start giving them something better to lose.
I’m not sure people appreciate just how much more Russia could gain by selling energy to the West instead of being stuck with China as their main buyer. Right now, Beijing isn’t paying top dollar, more near half price because the have Putin by the balls and they're squeezing, and that dependency means Russia’s leverage keeps shrinking. If Moscow were willing to normalize relations and open its economy, there are tens of billions just in additional energy revenue along with plenty else to keep the Russian people behind Putin and a legacy to leave.
The world has changed. China is now the West’s only real economic rival, and it’s in both our interests - Russia’s and ours - to find a way to work this out. Half of China’s population has lived through the enormous gains that came from access to Western markets and capital, and they can see those gains slipping away under Xi’s tightening control. Things aren’t as stable in his world as they show. So Russia has a choice: to keep sliding deeper into dependence on Beijing or to take the harder but far more rewarding path back toward the global economy.
At the end of the day, this isn’t about morality. it’s about strategy. That’s the Kissinger lens: align interests, reduce friction, and build a world where the alternative costs too much for anyone to want. Poland doesn't have options without the West's support, yet we dont milk you for every penny we can get. like China would. Again that has nothing at all to do with being fair or moral; its just GTO.
