Memes aside, I would be more interested in the potential of central and eastern regions leaving Russia - the parts that were historically populated by various indigenous peoples before being forcibly included into the Russian empire.
Yes, that’s a risk, I’m just saying the eastern part of Russia is not exactly winning by being under Moscow. They have a major part of Russian’s heavy industry, oil, ores, lumber, and several million cities packed with universities, so they have an initial set of everything to “live independently”. But whoever is nearby will always look at those resources - material or human.
Being a part of Russia should be reason enough /s
Memes aside, I would be more interested in the potential of central and eastern regions leaving Russia - the parts that were historically populated by various indigenous peoples before being forcibly included into the Russian empire.
Siberia - easily. “the guys over the mountains” coule live by themselves and get more use of their asian ties, in contrary to working for Moscow.
In reality though, they’d be run over immediately by China which I’m sure isn’t going to be in their best interest
Yes, that’s a risk, I’m just saying the eastern part of Russia is not exactly winning by being under Moscow. They have a major part of Russian’s heavy industry, oil, ores, lumber, and several million cities packed with universities, so they have an initial set of everything to “live independently”. But whoever is nearby will always look at those resources - material or human.