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"Nevertheless, Russia seems to have abandoned its imperialist gains and its imperialist ambitions. This is important for West European countries."
I love westerners trust in their "experts on russia" <3

Pre-2022 books make reading a special guilty pleasure "In the pre-modern world, states (or rather would-be states) may be dangerous because they are failures.
In the modern world, it is the successful states that are potentially dangerous." :)