@Miyhnea I deal with this constantly with UK right wingers thinking London can exemplary violence its way out of petty crime like its Medieval England because they don't want to pay extra tax to fund a fully staffed police force.
"Why did the old world die grandpa" asks the kid "Traitors and treason" answers the boomer who can't bring himself to say that he wanted to sell the copper wiring in his kolkhoz.
@SashoTodorov1 I think he is a Russianist, but an Imperial Russianist.
Again like he is British rather than English in self-ID.
Patronising to UA and EU even while their efforts are grinding down both UK and RF's Great Power fantasises.
@Miyhnea@rks17208@Althenaturalist Italy is unironically the most successful nation state project in Europe. It was playing on hard mode compared to France/Germany.
@Miyhnea 1. Luton is actually a successful industrial hated on because class and race bullshit like Slough.
2. I'm trying Anglo Meiji-Polish Kultura thought.
@SashoTodorov1 Okay but the non-Tokaido Shinkansen does that too. The problem isn't geography its state capacity (see also China).
HS2 does the no-intermediate stations and it a disaster for the same core reasons. State failure.
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@nik0p0l5@Miyhnea I will hear no such insults of Golden Horde warlord who cared about trade-contacts and inter-cultural co-operation as well as conquest.
Monke is gutter Leningrad thug.
@Phoenix4517@Miyhnea Its a common story of modern dictators (Putin, Xi). Hitler was closer to being what his mythology said he was, than Trump has ever been. (That's what made AH so dangerous).
@Miyhnea Its telling the Chinese don't have this mythos.
Its partly projection of Iranian/Russia discontent with their places.
Its also partly horror that no matter how fallen England is, we are all in the shadow of the British Industrial Revolution.