by being a huge trade block they can command lower prices, as it's just like going to costco, you buy more at a time, and get more for less. russia is an occupier or peoples lands. there are siberians, reindeer people, evanks, they're second class citizens and they were disproportionately sent as cannon fodder. i just don't see the benefits for the citizens to not be independent, to not run their lands the way they see fit. i was very neutral with the ukraine russia argument but it is a failed operation. we'd of all been better off if no war happened. ukraine was gifted those areas. i thought that may of been wrong to begin with but in the end i wouldn't be taking a gift back. the russian speakers living in ukraine were part ukrainian alot of the times and they have had their homes destroyed and looted.  so who is winning?
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