it's a (male) human sacrifice op in that russia's main purpose is to keep its military running, everything in russia revolves around it and is downstream from it, the economy, the culture, the infrastructure, the laws, even the religions. it's a cossack nation. the only problem is that ukraine is the exact same and has been separate long enough to have some degree of automony but while keeping the same mentality and social structure. most countries used to be like that including this one, the current peaceful age is an abberration that seems to be coming to an end although we did just have the war on terror. what was all that about? no one can answer it, it was fought for its own sake.
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