russia vs georgia

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Most of Russia is uninhabitated. they have natural resources, lots and lots of them. The problems they have are getting them from point A to point b. They are never going to have a robust economy simply because the govt is never going to give up the tight hold they have. It is the russian way. Not to mention the country is too vast and too large to ever be like a modern western economy. They want the southern breakaways back because they have resources and are a lot closer to delivery than Siberia.

Their history does seem to be one that desires the strong man.

I have trouble accepting that a country this big cannot feed itself.
Railroads are not exactly new inventions.

The above must be why their dissidents that have seen large
Westernized societies like ours get so pissed yet they hate our
selfishness. Lots of their intellectuals that get tossed write about
these ambivalent feelings.