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Why is Russia so obsessed with Britain anyway?
Comment by Lego-105 at 10/03/2025 at 12:58 UTC
88 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It really is just that they lost the Crimean war that badly. The stun lock of the millennia, producing generational unquenchable salt farms in Moscow.
Comment by DogsOfWar2612 at 10/03/2025 at 13:33 UTC
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they lost 'the great game' badly
and they never recovered
Comment by HIP13044b at 10/03/2025 at 14:02 UTC
52 upvotes, 3 direct replies
There's lots of replies about diplomacy, but personally, I see it as geography.
What big ideological enemy does russia have to skirt past every time whenever it wants to move shipping from the white sea or the baltic into the Atlantic.
What nation, that has a central role in nato, does Russia have to deal with every time it wants to move its larger fleets out into the Atlantic.
What nation can act as a giant aircraft carrier if the event of all out war or sit just where Russia don't want them to becoming a thorn in the side of Moscow by blockading their access to global shipping lanes.
Britian is slap bang in the middle of where Russia doesn't want them to be. Yes, there are the Eastern European and Scandinavian counties in the way, too, but I imagine they feel they could take them on or at least hold the manpower away since there are a lot of shared boarders. Or knowing their hubris, feel they could successfully invade.
Britian, being a big ugly pile of rocks surrounded by water, has no such shared land border and is capable of at least holding on in a conventional war.
Comment by Alternative_Skin1579 at 10/03/2025 at 13:03 UTC
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because we constantly call them out on their horse shit
Comment by FullTimeHarlot at 10/03/2025 at 14:10 UTC
23 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Lots of reasons but one that I find funny as fuck was because the US has historically competed with them being the major world power and they blame us for their creation.
Comment by vegemar at 10/03/2025 at 19:59 UTC
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Because Big Mean Britain won't let them turn Eastern Europe into vassal states ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Comment by odysseushogfather at 11/03/2025 at 07:58 UTC
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Modeen vatniks ideologically are partially descended from the LaRouche movement who are diabolic about Brits and Jews