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There's nothing paradoxical about this. Russia's war was in a major sense an attempt to become an America by (re)acquiring the USA/USSR-level economies of scale needed for viability as a sovereign civilization, in the more sophisticated Russian nationalist apologetics. https://t.co/wmA3jSG0s0
There's nothing paradoxical about this. Russia's war was in a major sense an attempt to become an America by (re)acquiring the USA/USSR-level economies of scale needed for viability as a sovereign civilization, in the more sophisticated Russian nationalist apologetics. https://t.co/wmA3jSG0s0
https://twitter.com/NathanpmYoung/status/1676178749014921216
But even for kremlins the main motivation was to cosplay American imperial adventures (with <10% of the economic base) and to earn "respect" from Americans, which flubbed due to their own incompetence, but which itself can be ultimately traced back to Russia not being America.
That is, not having the economies of scale and status as elite human capital magnet that America possesses, and of which it harnessed a tiny fraction of to quash what is probably Russia's last roll of the dice to become an America of its own rather than just part of America.
So there's actually nothing paradoxical about those attitudes, even beyond the matter of simple self-interest, you either need to destroy or at least forcibly eject America to become America yourself, anything less is a matter of negotiating the terms under which you join GAE.
In geopolitical terms, there's an analogy with Germany in H1 20C, where it was quite widely realized that to remain a relevant superpower they'd need to become a continental scale economy with a much bigger population; the Nazis only took that to its most maximalist conclusion.
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