its so pointless for russia to even try get more land. they have so much already and so much of it is unutilized or just badly/unefficiently utilized. all they have to do is develop better cold resitance tech and all of siberia would be there.
if russia utilized all they already have with as much efficiency possible with current tech, they would likely be dominant country in the whole planet. At least this is what I assume, since just statistically within that much land there must be tons of untapped resources still.
Despite all of that land they’re largely land locked and at the mercy of their neighbors. The either need to use friendly intermediaries to transload onto ice rated containers/tankers/bulk carriers ($$$expensive) or they get a warm water port (why they took Crimea) and hopefully where they can take land that also isn’t blocked by the Bosphorus Strait.
FYI this is why Russia technically doesn’t have any aircraft carriers. Beyond the fact that their doctrine doesn’t use it as heavily as the Americans (fight close to home in reinforced areas, well supported by other elements and land) Turkey has blocked the passage of any aircraft carriers through their strait.
Russia technically only had a heavy cruiser with a ramp on it.
You’re right that they have too much land though. They just have the wrong kind of land to have a more maritime outlook on the world. If Russia could trade directly through a warm water port all year their outlook would be vastly different. Shipping is 100X cheaper than rail, which is multiple times cheaper than road transport. You really do need constant sea access to trade in order to be invested into globalism to the point you stop viewing foreign nations as puppets or competitors exclusively.
I doubt they’d be that dominant. Having lots of land is great, but having the technology to exploit harsher land only means that you’re bringing that harsher land up to (economic) parity with less harsh land
You also need people to actually do the work, and Russia’s population is large but not that large. It’s about the same as Mexico or Bangladesh, or to Germany and France together. Compare that to some of the world’s heavy hitters; the US has more than twice what Russia has, the EU has three times, and China and India have ten times
To make a comparison: how dominant is Canada in the world? It’s also huge, cold, and resource-rich. It’s wealthy enough to develop basically whatever it wants in its territory. It’s doing great. But is it massively out-competing Germany, France, or the UK?
its so pointless for russia to even try get more land. they have so much already and so much of it is unutilized or just badly/unefficiently utilized. all they have to do is develop better cold resitance tech and all of siberia would be there.
if russia utilized all they already have with as much efficiency possible with current tech, they would likely be dominant country in the whole planet. At least this is what I assume, since just statistically within that much land there must be tons of untapped resources still.
Despite all of that land they’re largely land locked and at the mercy of their neighbors. The either need to use friendly intermediaries to transload onto ice rated containers/tankers/bulk carriers ($$$expensive) or they get a warm water port (why they took Crimea) and hopefully where they can take land that also isn’t blocked by the Bosphorus Strait.
FYI this is why Russia technically doesn’t have any aircraft carriers. Beyond the fact that their doctrine doesn’t use it as heavily as the Americans (fight close to home in reinforced areas, well supported by other elements and land) Turkey has blocked the passage of any aircraft carriers through their strait.
Russia technically only had a heavy cruiser with a ramp on it.
You’re right that they have too much land though. They just have the wrong kind of land to have a more maritime outlook on the world. If Russia could trade directly through a warm water port all year their outlook would be vastly different. Shipping is 100X cheaper than rail, which is multiple times cheaper than road transport. You really do need constant sea access to trade in order to be invested into globalism to the point you stop viewing foreign nations as puppets or competitors exclusively.
I doubt they’d be that dominant. Having lots of land is great, but having the technology to exploit harsher land only means that you’re bringing that harsher land up to (economic) parity with less harsh land
You also need people to actually do the work, and Russia’s population is large but not that large. It’s about the same as Mexico or Bangladesh, or to Germany and France together. Compare that to some of the world’s heavy hitters; the US has more than twice what Russia has, the EU has three times, and China and India have ten times
To make a comparison: how dominant is Canada in the world? It’s also huge, cold, and resource-rich. It’s wealthy enough to develop basically whatever it wants in its territory. It’s doing great. But is it massively out-competing Germany, France, or the UK?