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Well well well. 
Mr. Russia, welcome to white people 
Beyond Orcdom, A Treatise on Ascending from the Mud Realm, by Adolf Von Neulib (2026) (C)
Europeans get so angry when you refer to Russia (or Turkiye) as being "european" or "in europe". It's so funny.
like, even a list of "the biggest cities in europe" that includes Moscow, or a map infographic about europe that has russia or turkey colored in instead of being left in grey, will have germans in the comments going RUSSIA IS NOT EUROPE 
Published 1888: "surely the present writer has the undoubted, though to her, rather equivocal, privilege of being a European, by birth" (she was born in Yekaterinoslav in 1831)
A more decayed version of Heinrich Himmler finally gave Slavs the white card!! Wooooo
The crazy European chauvinism that just went by without a single thought is truly something to behold.
I joked about this just days ago lmao
What I'm hearing here is "Russia please help us keep Greenland"
Politically it seems like a smart move if Russia did help in that regard, even if just to deepen the NAFO rift
Why did jorjor wel have to be such a cop coz 1984's chapters on when the enemy empire changed at a drop of a hat is too fucking accurate lmao
His mistake was insisting that socialism would be exactly like the liberal capitalism that he lived in.
huh? what was that? what was that sound?
I hope Russia tells them to fuck off, I assume Europe would just use Russian oil to remilitarize and go back to threatening Russia again, anyways.
God, I wish, but Russia is always begging to be considered Europe and white, ever since Peter the Great (except maybe during Lenin's time), and it's not much better since they've become neoliberal. I think that was one of the causes of the fall of the USSR.
Russia will not ell them to fuck off. If the Europeans are willing to show sincerity, then Russia will accept cooperation with the Europeans and pull them away from the US. That's how capitalist geopolitics play out, on the basis of benefits. Not only that, but who wants to fight a protracted struggle? At some point, unless Russia annexes Europe, both sides will need to make some concessions to one another.
I assume Europe would just use Russian oil to remilitarize and go back to threatening Russia again, anyways
That ship has sailed. Russian oil supplies have been greatly rerouted to China and India while the EU has made itself dependant on the US for oil supplies. If the EU makes itself dependant on Russian oil supplies, not only will it have to pay a steep price, it will become easier to control and will shift away from the US.
If Russia or anyone here believes this is anything but politicking in an area that's going to go AFD and cause his coalition to falter in the next elections I present you the: 
They'll consider Russia European if it submits to NATO, prostrates itself before them, gives up in Ukraine, admits it was bad and then pays money to help defend them against the US. That's the kind of "deal" these "garden" EU liberals are going to offer Russia and they'll be shocked if Russia doesn't take it.
I think that’s a wrong analysis. The AfD is not uniformly pro Russia. Its position on Russia is strongly split between the west and east sections. We have seen for over a year now, but especially within the last months, that the AfD is heavily struggling with that conflict, because that’s one of the main things keeping them from being ready for the Parlament. And we have seen those fights for power not only within the AfD, but also from the outside trying to influence the AfD. Thinking that Merz saying this is just Ment to grab some votes from the AfD, is quite a shallow analysis in my opinion.
Now this doesn’t mean Germany is suddenly becoming pro Russia. Ofcourse not. But it’s really interesting to see, that after speaking for years now about russia as a rogue terror state where all people are crazy, Merz is saying this now. In my opinion this does at least show that the German capital is rethinking its approach to world power and wants to keep another option open, in case the current strategy of being by the US side doesn’t work anymore.
A little late for that, innit?
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