THE "RUSSIAN RESOURCES, GERMAN INDUSTRY" IDEA IS SUPER OLD
THE WILLIE AND NICKIE BROS HAD MINISTERS AND STATESMEN WHO THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE THE FUTURE
THEN HITLER THOUGHT THAT
THEN KHRUSHCHEV
THEN AFTER THE FALL OF THE USSR, PUTIN AND SCHROEDER WERE MAKING PLANS
ITS AN IDEA LONG IN THE MAKING AND IT NEVER PANS OUT BECAUSE THE RESULTING POWER BLOC UPSETS THE APPLE CART FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WESTERN WORLD
EVERYONE ELSE IS HEAVILY INVESTED IN NOT ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN
THE PRE-WW1 DYNAMIC WAS WEIRD
AMERICA WAS SEEN AS THIS IMPARTIAL NEUTRAL PARTY LIKE SWITZERLAND, ABOVE THE EUROPEAN RIVALRIES DUE TO THEIR ISOLATIONISM
RUSSIA AMERICA AND GERMANY WERE PALLING AROUND AS NEW POWERS ON THE SCENE WITH THIS EXPECTATION THAT THEY'RE NATURAL ALLIES AGAINST THE CRUSTY OLD ARISTOCRATIC EUROPE
RUSSIA WAS INDUSTRIALIZING AND HAD MONDO LAND, MANPOWER, AND RAW RESOURCES, BUT NEEDED EXPERTS TO KICKSTART THE PROCESS
GERMANY WAS A YOUNG POWER SURROUNDED BY ESTABLISHED AND COMPETENT RIVALS AND COULD REALLY USE THE RESOURCES
SO IT SEEMED LIKE A NATURAL FIT
THEN WW1 HAPPENED
