If Russians didn't exist then somebody else would colonize the steppes and Siberia. Could you imagine biggest country of the world, with 150 million Finns/Uralic people or 150 mil Poles? Would these alternatives be worse or better?
>>72556899
No. Because the Capital costs would be too intense to usefully take advantage of the territory. Mexico and Brazil have this problem as well, but Russia has it x5. And China can't profit reasonably past the Amur River region, so Beijing won't bother. Siberia is a sunk cost for Russia in the age of Industralization.
Sweden would probably do it
>>72556899
>Jamal autonomous district
kek
>>72558509
Sweden can't colonize because it's getting colonized itself. If you survive the Islamic hordes, maybe then, (but no. Because Russia.)
>>72556899
160 million swedes. Not these fucking cicke-feminist sweds, but true northmen swedes.
We would.
The world would also been pagan.
>>72556899
As long as they weren't Arabs it would be okay.
>>72558673
Says the """"white"""" American
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>>72558828
Hey there Sven. Don't hate us because you ain't us. Take care of your Mudslimes then come back with the higher ground.
>>72558995
Volga Bolgars were long gone by 14th centar and they certainly didn't control that much of a territory. They were around the modern down of Kazan mostly.
>>72556899
Just because Russia's population is about 143 mil, it doesn't mean there's that many Russians.
Russia is truly the most ethnically diverse country in the world. SJW should love her.
>>72559708
Yeah. But Europeans cannot into Russia or America. They fall for the same fallacies over and over again because they live in 'Nation-sized' nations as opposed to Continental Empires. See >>72558828
There was a rumor, probably not true, back when the Soviet Union collapsed that they wanted to sell off Siberia and the Far East to the United States for something like six trillion dollars. It would have been a huge investment by the US but imagine what the resources of the United States (government and business) could bring. They could have also opened it to homesteading, with millions of Americans looking for a place to create something new would be able to do so.
>>72560344
It would've been a terribad idea and a permanent source of friction with Russia. Homesteading doesn't work anymore, that's the point of why Russia fails. Russia struggles to keep its people in the Far East.
>>72560344
Just the every tought on it is scary enough.
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