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Actually Chinese men marrying Russian women makes sense. From what I have heard there are a lot more Russian girls than Russian men, and there are a lot more Chinese men than Chinese women.. So, hey that's literally a marriage made in heaven.
Quite frankly though the reason Russia is turning to China is partly becuase of the Nato Expansion and those bases.
Feanor how do you feel about Nato expanding East? Do you think it's threatening.
I have studied a semester of Russian history in college, and my "bit" of knowledge about Russian history tells me that the Russians have a very understandable fear of encirclement, partly because on the European side especially there are no natural borders/defensive terrain. As such throughout Russia's history they have faced a ton of terrible invasions.
In my book, I don't see how the Russians wouldn't view Nato troops so close to their border as anything BUT threatening, and my feeling is that any Russian president who cared about his country, democrat or not, would take serious issue with it..
Thus, my feeling is the US bares quite a lot of responsibility for Russia turning to China and Iran. As for them being a democracy, I think it will take time, but their democracy will always be a bit authoratarian because of the issues Russia has.
Still, I think the whole question and answer thing, even if it's nice questions, is really an awesome idea, and I wish we had it in the United States. Putin doing this reminds me of Roosevelt's fire side chats.
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