No obvious signs that it's a bit, but Poe's law, etc.
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What's the implication anyway? That Russia is lying about being 6400km across when it's actually much bigger?
The idea here is that Russia isn't as big as it appears on the map, so it's basically an ontological force of deception.
If you have to go all the way to comparing your enemy to the Sahara desert to make them look small, maybe they aren't really that small.
Instead of blaming the Flemish for the abomination that is the Mercator projection, they're blaming Russia for appearing larger than the Sahara within the Mercator projection.
I'm tired of this Mercator slander. it's a perfectly good map that's good at what it was supposed to do. It's not the fault of the Flemish that idiots don't understand it's not supposed to represent land area.
If humans were meant to navigate the oceans, then at least one of the many gods would have given us gills. Rhumb lines? More like dumb lines
Edit: Also, if Mercator was cool, there'd be sea serpents and/or dragons in the oceans of his map. Maybe a couple leviathans and kraken. But no, he had to be a square about rectangles
They're implying they made themselves look bigger than they are
Russia stretching out its arms and puffing its chest in order to scare off smaller foes.