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TexasTowelie

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Sun Dec 24, 2023, 06:46 PM Dec 2023

Russia Doesn't Even Hide - It Wants Central Asia - UATV English



The Central Asian region has been of imperial interest to the Russian state for hundreds of years, and since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has had a strong foothold in former Soviet republics of the region. But now, due to the war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is losing ground in the region, and it wants it back.
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Russia Doesn't Even Hide - It Wants Central Asia - UATV English (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2023 OP
I daresay that Mongolia, China, and some of the former Russian republics (originally part of the Soviet Union) SWBTATTReg Dec 2023 #1
hear ,. hear. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #2

SWBTATTReg

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1. I daresay that Mongolia, China, and some of the former Russian republics (originally part of the Soviet Union)
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 07:13 PM
Dec 2023

would object. Perhaps even Korea and Japan. There are a lot of players there in that part of the world and Russia has already proven that it's incapable of governing these large tracs of land. Personally, i think that they want to steal all of the mineral resources of this whole region and keep it for their billionaire buddies in Russia (Putin's buddies). Kind of like they did when the government dismantled and the shares of Russian industry was auctioned off (IMHO this was rigged).

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