Why is Russia so big? I am impressed at how they dwarf everyone else
>>204663623no one could stop them conquering siberia
isn't like 1/3 of their landmass permafrostalso mercator
Empty and nobody cared about Siberia
>>204663728>>204663797It's not just Siberia it's Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Pacific coast, Sakhalin etc
>>204663889>Southern Russiasame as Siberia. A bunch of rump khanates (Crimea, Astrakhan, Golden Horde) that fought amongst themselves all the time >the Caucasusthat one was a real tough nut to crack and they still cause trouble to this day>KaliningradStalin (a Georgian) responsible for it>Pacific Coastmost of it had been fucking useless until the Qing started to collapse and Russia got its piece of the pie>Sakhalinutterly buckbroken by the Japanese. Only recovered it under Stalin (a Georgian)tl;dr all that size didn’t fucking matter because the Imperial government was concentrated around Moscow and St Petersburg. The Soviet Union only started developing these areas after WWII when they had to evacuate industry from the European part.
>>204663889How big would it be without the big empty part nobody cared about?
>>204664191>they still cause trouble to this dayLiterally the most buckbroken Russiacucks ever but okWhy are Germans so retarded and smug with their Russophobia cope
>Why does nobody live here?
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>>204664303still pretty big
>>204664303This is Russia's natural border minus Karelia desu
>>204664191It just sounds like they played their cards right and outmaneuvered/outsmarted everyone else
Free Idel-Ural
>NOOOO THEY MIGHT HAVE VAST LANDS GRANTING ACCESS TO MASSIVE OIL RESERVES AND NATURAL RESOURCES...BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING BECAUSE NO ONE HECKING LIVES THERE!
>>204663763>isn't like 1/3 of their landmass permafrostSo?
>>204664714So the land is useless, and was practically free for them to take.
>>204664347nothing about those borders are naturalthere's the caucases and the urals and everything else is an arbitrary line in a field
>>204663889In northern california stands a fort of Russian explorers.>>204663728Conquests were only a small part of the development of Siberia - most of it was exploration and trade alliances with local peoples.
>>204664751>ARABLE LAND IS THE ONLY USEFUL LAND>DON'T LOOK UP ALASKA
>>204664751And?
>>204664825Oh right, the resource wealth that is basically now their only golden egg thanks to their corrupt oligarch system.>>204664872And as a result it's less impressive.
>>204663623You forgot Crimea OP.
>>204663623If it wasn't big it couldn't have tigers
>>204664905>Oh right, the resource wealth that is basically now their only golden egg thanks to their corrupt oligarch system.>tf>tpKEK
>>204663623For the most part, this is not government development but the result of medieval trading companies owned by merchant families. They hired private military units, (PMC, if I may say so) to explore the Siberian lands in the name of science and rare furs in demand in Europe. You could make a tactical RPG, but fuck you, I've already booked that idea.
>>204664976Get off the internet. It's ruined your mind.
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>>204665107Almost based. Kurils should have a dark green color too. When the Japanese resurrect 20 million Soviet citizens for us, then we will talk about the return of the Kurills.
>>204665107Königsberg…
>>204665293Sweet german dreams...Based russian reality...
>>204665352Russian reality= German tanks in Russia right nowWe habe it still in us yk
Theyre big because they meatwaved thr germans into submission and then stole the nuclear bomb which protects them to this day. I admire them but i think that they are almost done as an empire, they had a good run and outlasted all the european powers but america will bleed them in ukraine/georgia or some other proxy. Russia simply doesnt have the young population to support protracted conflict.
>>204665437>Source: My Ass>>204665404Russian reality: German redditors pathetically seething
>>204663623>>204663889>>204664263>>204664563>>204664825>>204664976>>204665526It's time to turn off the VPN, Sasha
>>204665526>t. John Johnovich from Texas oblast
>>204665597Issnt it Serbs job?
>IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS>ARRANGE ME SHEET MUSIC OF JEFRE-CANTU LEDESMA
>>204663623Russia small + 80% of it is uninhabitable
>>204665647:)
>>204663623because of the most kino revenge invasion of siberian mongoloids ever
>>204665889Why do you suck russian cock so much then?
>>204665855australia is fucking big
>>204663763Actually it's 2/3 permafrost
>>204665855I dont get these projections
>>204663623map disortion, also more than 60% percentage of it is uninhable
>IT'S UNINHABITABLE>ONLY 30 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE THERE
>>204665855This map is wrong on so many levels
>>204666182The 2-sphere isn’t homeomorphic to a 2-dimensional plane. Hence there are no continuous one-to-one morphisms between these two. Hence every projection doesn’t capture the whole structure. In case of the Mercator projection, distances are preserved, but areas aren’t.
>>204666220*opens up le population density map*
>>204666443What does population density prove, retard>DUDE THEY DIDN'T DEVELOP THIS RESERVE OF RAW NATURAL RESOURCES INTO A BUNCH OF MEGACITIES THAT MEANS IT'S USELESS. IGNORE THE NUMEROUS VERY LARGE CITIES IN SIBERIA
Cause Denmark the snakes managed to rally european powers to their side during the numerous wars we tried to kil Russia in the crib, we were the only ones that realised that them having unlimited ability to expand east would spell trouble for us all. Everyone slept on it and you got the Soviet Union for it, fucking retards
>>204665968should I suck your cock instead?
>>204666533>ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURT ALL CAPS BUTTHURTTurn off that VPN
>>204666846The glibness of Putler Derangement Syndrome Westerners is just insufferable. You people know next to nothing about Russia but because you watched NFKRZ, played Company of Heroes, and maybe watched a few movies you talk like you have any authority about the country. You don't need to read anything, even contemporary newsIt's always Russia bad, Russia weak, Russia wrong, after all, who needs to even confirm such an a priori fact? I'm not even pro-Putin or invasion btw.
>>204666991You genuinely could not write a more obvious Vatnigger wall of text if you tried
>VATN- ACK!And there it is
>OH MY SCIENCE LOOK AT THE POPULATION DENSITY MAP, WHY DOESN'T IVAN PIDOROVICH LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING NOWHERE ON A FUCKING ICE GLACIER INSTEAD OF BEING PACKED IN GOY PODS LIKE SOME SOUTH ASIAN GOOKWhy are density fags like this? Do they have a fat fetish or something?
>>204667249Fire control system is much better. Unfortunately it is a turret tosser like the obsolete T-72 series you use. I still remember the days when everyone was hipping up that crap like it some miracle of engineering, abraaps fairs much better but it is 50 ton fat american woman so isn't fit for the swampy crap it is used in and it wasn't mean to.
>>204663623Russia as OG Russia was a shithole just like belarus, ukraine and poland are today, but in order to get their shit together and secure their borders from mongoloids, turks and germs they had to controll vast empty lands until the Urals, after which they realized, the mongoloids have enough space to go south of the Urals and bypass them and raid again, so the only option they had is to search east and south east until they found enough natural obsticales to draw borders on the map.They ended up reaching alaska taking in and or fighting any mongoloid tribe they came across, which is why russia is so ethnically diverse today.Then with their gigantic territory they cant controll or exploit, they used it as some sort of attritional cover from the enemies.In that vast area, they found out westoid furry scum likes fur for their fur suits, so they exported fur ss they export gas, oil and wheat today, making globohomo cabbal jealous and fearfull that russia might reach one of the sea routes to smother the global trade with resources and take over the olanet as an orthodox christian empire which is for the cabbal worse than islamic planet of the apesIts also why every war in europe started and was fought in over 1000 years in the past
>>204667471More trust in the engineers at UVZ taking the tank apart than a random belter. Sorry, buddy, nothing personal, pure rationality.
>>204667330Yeah. For example most of the are of Yakutia was already below -30C in October.There are many places on the PLAINS where snow doesn't melt through summer.How people are supposed to live there?Btw map shows European part pretty warm. It's an anomaly this year.
>>204667762This is from previous year.
>>204667471>Believes the Russians are using the obsolete T-72 as their main tank, not the T-72B3>Does not know that the T-90M is the main tank strike force>Doesn't know that UVZ is the largest tank factory in the world, which at full capacity produces as many tanks in a month as NATO can't produce in a year.kek
>>204663623big country but they lie about their population numbers. they claim 140 million when in reality there's only 60-70 million
>>204667813Seems like global warming isn't a joke. Here's from 2016.
>>204667544It's crazy how Russians managed to create a monumentally impactful civilization which stands out among the other Slavs who seem like comparatively simple people with little ambition. They're truly built different.
>>204667833This. No education, no intelligence. A typical /k/-belter
>>204667833All of these tanks are obsolete. Yours and western because they are built on 60's-80's cold war doctrine. New designs must be introduced not rehashing stock T-72 and putting a bunch of shit on it and calling it giga nigga ultra modernized +.
>>204667544fellas is this true?
>>204668044They will be present on the battlefields for the next 100 years, despite being death trapsThere is literally no other tank to replace themOnly logical next step is to turn them into dog drones
>>204663623-60C
>>204668159Autonomous turrets and shifting armor was promising, slap some EW on the new design too. Anyway I am no engineer but everyone will eventually have to update them. I honest see no point in making these old doctrine 30-50 ton deathtraps and the light APC with tank turret thing Americans experimented with? Total disaster. So tanks are not obsolete it is just their current design and tasks are not up to the challenge. Hell we might go back to the old light-medium-heavy tank classification kek. Send some drone sponge shed with more agile ones behind.
>>204668347With an optic cable behind, yesProbably, but who knowsThere is enough room inside any tank today for servo controlls instead of people, idk why they arent doing it now
>>204668822This of course contrasts with the numerous military successes of the advanced modern Lithuanian army and its glorious military victories.
>>204663623This isn't even my final form
>>204669730There was this Lithuanian character in mount and blade with fire and sword, annoying other valiuable companions in my army and always pointing out he is Lithuanian, literally none of the others liked him and he was weird, i have no idea why i kept himOne time he pissed off the romanian dracula companion and i had enoughIf you put a girls dress on a male companion, he gets tits and female figure with the head remaining his, and he charges into battle wearing a dressIt was fucking hilariousKept his mouth fucking shut
>>204669730We broke away from the USSR by just singing and shitposting. Sun Tzu would be proud.
>>204669952I fucking love Balkanoids. Only real niggas in Europe.
>>204669998You broke away cuz Gorb was a clown and if anyone semi compotent was in charge, they would have driven a single T-72 over the skulls of everyone in that stupid line and the world wouldn’t be in the capitalist hellscape dystopia it is now.
>>204663623Siberia.If it had a means to secede, Siberia would still be the largest country in the world by... roughly an India, give or take an Egypt or two.If the Khanate of Sibir put up a better fight (or if the Golden Horde hadn't imploded), Russia would stop at the Urals.
>>204670171Russia without Siberia would still be several times larger than any other European country >>204664303
>>204667249>inferior in all characteristics to Russian tanksthe only inferior part about leopard, that is nato and germans didn't learn that there must be 8000 of themand ukraine, in it's best tradition of begging money overseas before and after 2022, could make thousands of T-84 instead begging for 14 leopards gathered from portugal to canada
>>204670289European countries are tiny. I literally have Liechtenstein in my pocket. Literally.
>>204670125I do agree we need a new system and way of thinking and if Gorby wasn't a retard we might have actually had a properly organized world order where the two powers would cooperate amongst each other and fix the poo in the loo way down south of the globe but what is, it is, we can't change the past, the dice wast cast we now play slots.
>>204663623USA had the wild west but Russia had the wild east.
>>204663623>mercator mapYou're a nigger.
>>204665855>GreenlandHoly googly moogly
>>204670295Might i add that ours in most likelyhood did not even work
>>204670573That's not a mercator map though
>HOLY FUCKING WAR THUNDER! I LOVE TANK ANALYSIS! THIS TOTALLY CHANGES THE FACT THAT RUSSIA IS WINNING!
>>204670573Retard
>>204670761Winning what? I don't see both sides winning anything unless rushits freeze this conflict, get the territory and the turmoil in shitkraine will lead to another revolution. Pyrrhic victory awaits both, but the cards have been shuffled with orange man winning the elections so it might tip heavily to either, we will see.
>>204670709>>204670766Kill yourselves.
>>20466783Thats well and good on paper but the reality is that production of newer models is not enough to keep up with demand.Plus the genius Over at uzv have yet to fix the God awful reverse speed of you mbts>>204669998Should have shot gorbi and reformed like the chinks did, what ever wierd mix of socialism they have is the shit, could have saber us from this garbage distopian timeline
>>204670840>Winning what?Fights, territory
>>204670761Better discusting tanks over here then listening to talking heads on TV telling US that all russian equipament is garbage, ukraine uses the same shit, and russia is out of missiles since 2022
>>204670935Both things are gay
>>204670974>OMG YOU HAVE AN INTEREST!!! HAHAHA SO GAYYour life must be sad
>>204670849Easy way to tell if you're looking at a mercator projection is when Russia is looks super bloated. Most other projections aren't as deceptive, but mercator is used by Google Maps because it's convenient for navigation
>>204671091Maybe don't act like your autistic video game hyperfixation translates to meaningful outcomes IRL, moor
>>204663623Gotta have some space if you intend to build millions of HIV clinics
>>204671164no clinic, only gulag
>>204671134>Noo you cant have a hecking hobbirino! You need to be serious all the time no fun allowed!!!!!!! >:(Yeah because interest in military equipment only appeared when a russian company made a video, never existed previously Retard
>>204671345>Yeah because interest in military equipment only appeared when a russian company made a video gameTook the words right out of my mouth
>>204663623Most of their lands are filled with muslisms, finno-ugrics and asians.They are colonizialing them even today and keeping them in their third word shithole where all the money flows into moscow.
>>204671833Most of the indigenous "republics" are a majority Russian lmao cope harder
>>204664303>Karelia>Komi>Udmurtia>MariYeah, we will start ww3 if nobody else willhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxv6-bTLdvE
ITT: NAFO Fellas who don't know anything about Russia offer their worthless baseless speculations
>>204671946>OH MY SCIENCE 200 REINDEER HERDERS SPEAK A LANGUAGE CENTURIES REMOVED FROM FINNISH THEY'RE GOING TO RISE UP
>>204672000We are gonna drag everyone else into it too if thats nessecary, Do not undersestimate Finnic mind.This might be that last time door is open
>>204672126>Uralo-Finnic, SiberianSo most of that is just the other Siberians
>>204667249thats what they tell you to say and think, in the meantime your engineers are coombing them to learn everything they can from it.no one with a clue has ever said leo is better or worse than your top models, the real difference lays in training and maintendance. when soviet was big and stronk in the cold war days each conscript on a tank got one-1 real practice shot fired during their entire training, we got truckloads. its how we refresh out stockpile. when the ammo is about to expire its cheaper to shoot it up by the hundreds and potentially replace a barrel than disposing it in other ways.too bad its not enough time to give ukies this level of training but they know tank warfare already its just getting the best out if the leo's they need to figure out themselfs.
>>204672196Most people there are Finno-Permics.It leaves out mostly east of Urals and samoyedics Northern coast, which again are still Northern Uralics from shores of artic sea.Its every Finnic mans duty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxC0s9M16q0
>>204671753I Guess i was fucking up plastic models as a kid because some Ivan would make a tank plane game 15 years down the lineFucking zoomers
>>204672548You're incredibly defensive about this, probably due to autismTake a break and cool down
>>204668347>>204668822>>204668044>>204667471Unironically like lithuanians now (not that I hated them before but still).
>>204672762You seem to be extreamely angry at other peoples happiness Are you ok anon do you need help? Did some military entusiast rape you when you were little?
>>204672301> no one with a clue has ever said leo is better or worse than your top models, the real difference lays in training and maintendanceThis, but also Russia cannot build enough of those advanced tanks. One of the russian officials literally said that T-14 is "too expensive" to use in ukraine, which begs the question why the fuck were they even developed in the first place.
>>204667249Kek, leofart>>204667471>Fcs is much better To a 80s t72 maybe, sosna mogs leofarts fcs, it even has target recognition >>204672301A conscript with 3 days of real combat would perform better than a retard who shot 1000 rounds on a shooting range
>>204671946>>204664347>>204664667russian finnics are extinct, we're russians now
>>204673871We are still alive at noth, decpite stalins plans to genocide us.Stalin were worse than hitler i want revenge now when we are first world due freedom.
>>204674225No, Karelia is already almost entirely Russian.
>>204674365It also were less than 100 years ago Finno-Ugric.I know and have seen what its become under ur influence. Theres lots of work but its still managble into first world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBkJ9sL6HYQ
>>204673871Based Russian tactics assimilating entire races into extinction by letting them fuck your women
>>204674988> your womenmy?
>>204675094Yours specifically
>>204674455When you start firing shots, can you let K-Car know? She really wants out.
>>204677157Finland has army for one purpouse.
>>204677840Turning your psycho femboys loose with rifles?
>>204677958Return the Roman Empire
>>204678021I think you've got as good a chance as the Seljuks. Bonne chance mon ami.
>>204664905So?
>OMG look a mapThis thread.
>>204663623nobody lived there (relatively speaking) so it was just a big sweepyou dont conquest a territory twice the size of yurop in 80 years
>>204663623Any country larger than 50,000 km2 in land size should be split and any country smaller than 5,000 km2 should unify or get annexed, for a better well-balanced world
>>204679176You're 1.8 million km^2... The district of my home province that I grew up in was 100,000+km^2. Your idea is the beaurocratic definition of hell.
>>204679628True, there would be too many countriesEarth's land area excluding antarctica is about 135 mil km2 so 500,000-750,000 km2 seems good, there would be around 200 countries like today but the area is more evenly distributed1 mil km2 feels too large
