On: 300k airplanes in five years

[kibwen]

> Russia is a country with fluid borders

Weird how that fluid always seems to spill outward, and never inward, innit?

[hollerith → kibwen]

The borders underwent a large inward contraction in 1991.

[kibwen → hollerith]

This is still conflating the USSR and Russia. The Russian SFSR, AFAICT, had exactly the same borders as Russia did before it started biting off pieces of its neighbors.

[reisse → kibwen]

No, you're wrong here. Russian SFSR initally included the whole Central Asia, Caucasus countries, Crimea and eastern parts of Ukrainian SSR. Russian SFSR border you talking about is from circa 1956.

[Dylan16807 → kibwen]

In that case the borders never moved and you can't say they only spill outward.

[hollerith → kibwen]

Well, sure, with enough motivated cognition, it is possible to fit the facts to your preferred narrative.