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the Russian populace believing that they have anything we want on their land
The irony is that their natural resources are cheaper to us when they are in Russian hands and therefore extracted by workers earning appallingly low Russian wages. Compared to what it would cost us if the EU invaded and annexed them somehow and ended up having to pay Russian miners and oil field workers the going rate over here.
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You are forgetting Russian inefficiency. It costs OPEC nations $20-25 per barrel to extract oil. It costs Russia ~$45 because of antiquated technology and corruption.
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Yeah...that's not how imperialism works. I'm not suggesting that the EU or NATO is about to invade Russia, but if some state did, the last thing they would do is raise wages.
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GeneralStrike
There's a chapter on that in Prisoners of Geography (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_Geography)
The whole thing relies on the Russian populace believing that they have anything we want on their land and that the west hasn't learned that land invasions of Russia are stupid.