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[-] arf_arf@reddthat.com -5 points 1 year ago

No, but I find this discourse in which Eastern European countries are incapable of setting their own politics and pursing their interests so they must be stewarded by someone (EU, America, Russia…) to be racist.

[-] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It isn’t that they must be. It’s that the larger powers around them will by default control the surrounding area, unless they suffer severe collapse.

The Roman Empire spanned all the way from the British Isles to the Egyptian desert once, and they held strong trade influence on the areas outside their direct control. It is the same here; the only question is who you would prefer to align with. The West, and the US/EU, or the East, Russia/China. That is simply the truth of geopolitics.

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