Why are Russians so obsessed with conquering europe? And why have they failed at doing so?
>>18577505They got half, not bad
That quote has nothing to do with Russians conquering Europe, but rather honesty.>Why are Russians so obsessed with conquering europe? Russia has no obsession with conquering Europe. On the contrary, it was Europeans obsessed with conquering Russia. See Napoleon Bonaparte.
>>18577505Pyotor Chaadaev wrote about this, his final blackpill came with Nicholas I and the Crimean war which he saw as pointless and caused by "monke want banan" mindless expansion towards balkanoid areas and clay Russia will never need. Basically Russians have a desire to chimp out and expand until someone stops them and that will never change.
>>18577505Throughout it's history Russia has been repeatedly invaded by European powers: the PLC and Swedish Empire during the Time of Troubles, Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Napoleonic Wars and the Wehrmacht during the Great Patriotic War.This has made it clear that Europeans are not Russia's friends, in order to guarantee the security of the Russian people the state must pursue an aggressive geopolitical strategy. You must agree, self-preservation is the inalienable right of every living organism, yes?A conquered Europe presents a much lesser threat to Russian security than an unconquered one. It's sad but it is what it is.
>>18577539>>18577532>Broke Unkiar Skelessi treaty and lost alliance with Austria, which a rivalry evolved into the great warRussia are basically retarded
>>18577539Russia lost
>>18577505most of the Soviet Unions top scientists and engineers came from Ukraine and they've been trying to get it back since the USSR fell>ukraine is a corrupt shitholeyeah, they're a slavic country, tell me the news not the weather
>>18577505>picrelThat quote is about the end of the Russo-Turkish war where the West intervened to save the Ottomans from total collapse.
>>18577539actually Russia was invading Europe, see the Russian-Lithuanian wars, Livonian War, the Russian invasion of the PLC during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Partitions of Poland etc.
