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Re:US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease fo... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:44PM (#31746446)
History does not show this is true.

Russia has historically been invaded by such people as Genghis Khan(actually his grandson, Tamerlane, Napoleon, Charles )I forget which one) of Sweden, and Hitler.

The USA on the other hand is protected by two oceans and has not had a foreign army on the continent since 1815.

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Re:US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease fo... by hdjjhhvvhga on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:14AM (#31751367)
What I mean is the attitude of the rulers toward their own people, not other countries, these are two separate things. In Russia, you basically have a long history of peasants and common folk trying to get free and the tsars suppressing them. Finally in 1917 they managed to overthrow their ruler only to discover they had been duped again, and the red tsardom was even worse than the white one. And it basically never ended: most Russians have never had a chance to live in a free country. And for some reason they stopped rebelling [0].

[0] Some people blame the spirits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK7l55ZOVIc

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Re:US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease fo... by rasz on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:37PM (#31746891)
>Russia has historically been invaded by such people as Genghis Khan(actually his grandson, Tamerlane, Napoleon, Charles )I forget which one) of Sweden, and Hitler.

here is a fun one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_occu... Russia really doesnt like the fact Poland not only occupied Moscow, but also got Kings son elected Tzar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_monarchs#Tsars...

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