No obvious signs that it's a bit, but Poe's law, etc.
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biblically accurate Africa
Nooo damn mercader that russian propagandist!!!
Anyways gall-peters projection ftw
wtf africa step aside leave some earth for the rest of us
No
Gall Peters is ugly as hell, it's possible to have a map with less distortion at the poles without it looking like this abomination. Winkel tripel forever
Winkel tripel projection is very practical, but my heart belongs to dymaxion.
If you're gonna go Dymaxion, I prefer BuildTheEarth's conformal Dymaxion variant:
These all look like middle schoolers papercrafting.
there's a more butterflyed version of this that i forget what it's called and looks a little nicer to me since it has a more mercatory layout but keeps the dymaxion style unfolding
waterman butterfly?
yeah, i think they should snip off all the antarcticas and put it on its own off to the side like US maps do alaska and hawaii so it can be contiguous too
Goode homolosine?
waterman, i guess.
Any non-equal area projections are 
by my standards
Mollweide is a very close second favourite for me so maybe I'll change my mind
ROBINSON GANG
ROBINGSON GANG
I prefer my equal-area projections to make America look like a warped mess
Just use a globe
Un-funhouse mirror. 
I'm more of an Equal Earth guy
For those wondering, the mercador projection (used for this map) is the reason for this and was invented by a Flemish man called Gerardus Mercador. It is a western European construct in every sense.
Also, while it is distorted, I don't think this diagram is actually correct. When you measure the distance between two points on Google Maps, it calculates the shortest distance, which in the case of Russia is a polar route almost entirely over the Arctic Oceanβvery much NOT the straight line shown in the diagram. Wikipedia gives the distance as 9000 km starting from Kaliningrad Oblast, which is an exclave, so if you shave off the ~500 km to the main western border of Russia it gives you ~8500 km (you can add a few intermediate points to Google Maps to get a similar result). Obviously still incredibly distorted, so the real takeaway should be that they're comparable in size.
This website is fun to play around with since it lets you overlay countries on each other in the Mercator projection which really shows you how distorted it is. The default view shows you how the US lower 48, China, and India can comfortable fit inside Africa with about a Europe to spare.
As always.
does bro think that countries themselves sent their selfies so they could be mapped?
Power Projection
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.
~~Mercator~~Mercader Projection 
Russia invented projections of spheres to 2d maps so they could look bigger.
Murkader
Mykhailo projection.
He should email the president of Africa to warn him of this imposture
projection is all the 
twitter folks have, now Putin wants to have that too smh 
Did anyone ever play the videogame Lemmings?
Reading this was like watching a conga line of my lemmings march into a saw blade
Globeheads!
Wait until they learn about Greenland π±