I disagree. You know, borders are open. And anybody who wants european benefits can just go there and have a good european life. And many people choose that way. Those who stay just don't give (excuse me my lexic) a shit about Europe. We just do not care, and we are not interested in conquering something. We have a lot of our land to develop, so why we should bother about exhausted Europe?
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary and a lot of smaller countries was just necessary for safe belt between USSR and the West. If there was no Cold War, there was no need to control that countries. But the West preferred to confront not to cooperate. And what we supposed to do? Should we allow to position NATO's nukes around our borders?
And now Putin have no interest to get something from Europe. May be only money and technology to build enterprises here. Nobody needs or wants conrol over Europe. Even more, a lot of people thinks here that we should learn from Europe...
But now. Europe just pushed us away into "friendly" Chinese hug. And it would have far far different economical consequences for Europe. Because China wants your markets badly. And with Transsiberian Highway it will get them.
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary and a lot of smaller countries was just necessary for safe belt between USSR and the West. If there was no Cold War, there was no need to control that countries. But the West preferred to confront not to cooperate. And what we supposed to do? Should we allow to position NATO's nukes around our borders?
And now Putin have no interest to get something from Europe. May be only money and technology to build enterprises here. Nobody needs or wants conrol over Europe. Even more, a lot of people thinks here that we should learn from Europe...
But now. Europe just pushed us away into "friendly" Chinese hug. And it would have far far different economical consequences for Europe. Because China wants your markets badly. And with Transsiberian Highway it will get them.