Why are y'all teaching children maths? You're supposed to teach adult maths, duh.

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Somehow the russians are insecure about the size of their country

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The Russians view Ukraine joining the EU as an existential threat and yes, there's ways to explain that economically but they're much more concerned withe the prospect that Ukraine, which occupies a very particular place in the Russian national mythos, would be lost to the West forever

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Like I don't want to say Russian leadership *never* talks about this but the whole thing with the humiliation of the 90s is it's ultimately about the loss of empire and there's an economic angle to it but it's mostly the international prestige/map blob thing that drove them insane

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*all* of them insane, especially the liberals and dissidents, who felt the dispossession and loss of prestige the *most*, way more than the siloviki

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