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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

retuardo 2y ago

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

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retuardo 2y ago

HITLER OF COURSE HAD THE IDEA THAT IN ORDER TO COUNTERACT THE SIX HUNDRED POUND MEGAGORILLA OF AMERICAN ECONOMY AND MANUFACTURING, EUROPE COULD JUST SEND ITS YOUNG PEOPLE TO SIBERIA AND BUILD A FUCKTON OF FARMS AND FACTORIES

THIS WAS STILL IN THE EARLY YEARS OF RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS SO PEOPLE HAD TONS OF UNFOUNDED OPTIMISM ABOUT HOW SIBERIA COULD BE EXPLOITED

THEN AFTER THE WAR KHRUSCHEV BASICALLY HAD THAT EXACT IDEA AS STATE POLICY AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THERES TONS AND TONS OF PRACTICAL PROBLEMS THAT GET IN THE WAY OF THAT