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user-inactivated · 2578 days ago · link · · parent · post: From spy to president: the rise of Vladimir Putin
Protected from what? Are there any other books that you would suggest reading about the way Russia is?But if I were God, and I could wave my magic wand, I'd make Russia a more bountiful, more easily protected place.
Mongols, for one. Rationalism argues that the primary component of international relations is geography, not people, and that culture is shaped by maps, not the other way around. I'd start with Kaplan's Revenge of Geography.