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  • 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?











  • As I understand it (which could be wrong, I have no particular knowledge on this topic), he ran as a member of a different party that has not faced the same legal classifications. He used to be a councillor for NPD, which is the one a court described as Nazi-like and unconstitutional. In this election he ran for Free Saxons, who do appears to be far-right loons in their own way but who don’t seem to be so clearly Nazi-ish. NYT is right to point out his connection to NPD, though