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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Russia has plenty of problems on its plate. Oil is very cheap, and the Russian ruble is very expensive. I think you got that wrong; oil is very cheap, and so is the ruble. But the cheap ruble is making everything expensive for the Russians.
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vegetables posted:I have a question for the thread: I know Russia dislikes having NATO up close against its borders. What I don't really understand is why they wouldn't also dislike a militarised alliance of Eastern European States, which seems to me the likely alternative. What am I missing? According to Russian military doctrine, a border is safe when there are Russian soldiers on both sides of it. This has seriously been the essence of Russian military strategy for centuries: make sure there are "allied" countries between barbarians and the motherland, to slow down the inevitable invasions. Russia will not be satisfied with any situation where it doesn't directly control these in-between countries.
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steinrokkan posted:Of the places to build a 100 km undersea tunnel... this one seems to have relatively little population to warrant such a project. Is there that much traffic between Helsinki and Tallinn? I'm not really sure, but the current ship/ferry passenger numbers between Sweden, Finland and Estonia are surprisingly large:  Or maybe the passenger numbers everywhere else are just really small, I don't know.  Image source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Maritime_ports_freight_and_passenger_statistics
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