Russia Vanishes From Asia’s Biggest Airshows as Its Arms Export Industry Shrinks (united24media.com)

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“What we are seeing is not a strategic pivot away from Asia, but a forced reallocation under severe structural constraints,” said Francesco Schiavi, a research fellow at the Middle East Institute Switzerland. “Russia’s absence from these key shows reflects the shrinking, regionalized, and increasingly concentrated nature of its arms-export profile—trends that have been sharply accelerated by the war in Ukraine.”

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago

It's kind of sad to see all that potential Russia had after the fall of the Soviet Union go to waste.
But for now the worse it is for Russia, the better it is for the world.
And in particular Ukraine, who is a completely innocent victim of the insanity of Russia.

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Well, Russia was the Soviet Union. They occupied the other states, that’s it. Russia is still literally the fucking Muscovy occupying other countries. It’s sad to see them wasting their potential only if you believe Russia was a positive force once in its history. It never was. It’s sad to see Ukraine becoming non-nuclear state, giving up arms to fucking russia, only to be attacked with these very arms. Also, the US giving the security guarantees to Ukraine, for the disarmament, for nothing. The US is the open ally to Russia, the very enemy of NATO, and they’re happily bonking kids meanwhile. That’s sad to see.

I hope everyone would learn the lesson. Ukraine would go nuclear, with other smaller states following. That’s nothing funny to be fucked with, when you give up missiles, and the USians being ‘haha, losers, lol.’

Perhaps China really deserves to become dominant, instead of the US. If the USians are that fucking dumb to bring these idiot to power, especially the fucking second time.

Where you people get this attitude towards Russia as if that’s an innocent kid, but the others, attacked by them, they never even given a benefit of the doubt. Russia is a fucking monster. And always was. They deserve to be completely destroyed. Only the tiny Moscow and the big number of independent states on its place is a security guarantee. For everyone, including Ukraine.

And Russians absolutely deserve all that. Who brought Stalin to power? Russians. Same people brought Pooteen to power too. They would happily bring another monster to power, as they’re monsters themselves.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

only if you believe Russia was a positive force once in its history.

I don't, but they had a chance to change for the better when the Russian Federation was formed. And for a while it looked like they would, until Putin completely ruined it.

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He always appealed to the masses. It’s not like he’s Darth Vader who pushes his will on others. He mostly does what’s popular and appeals to their masses. The Russian masses enjoy all that, that’s the Russia they built. Not mysterious one man who controls over a hundred million of people. Don’t strip them of their responsibilities.

They did had a chance indeed, but instead of giving them help, the west could have helped exactly the oppressed nations. Instead, we’ve got chicken Kiev speech.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

Russia is still literally the fucking Muscovy occupying other countries.

Not even other countries, Russia is basically the colonial empire run by Moscow and St Petersburg.

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What I meant is that they occupy everything, but these two cities and probably the ground in the middle, in between Moscow and what they once called Leningrad. Or Petrograd.

Moscow is their only city, plus St Petersburg is a front-end for stupid westerners buying the ‘great Russian culture’ narrative. I lived there for some months, and it’s so fucking pathetic, the city. But it serves its mission.

The rest is them occupying places that would be independent countries otherwise. Kuban is Ukraine. Ichkeria and Dagestan are independent states. Russia waged two genocidal wars on Ichkeria merely 30 years ago. Dzhokhar Dudayev (the leader of independence movement of Ichkeria, the one who Russia claimed as terrorist number one) said that Russia would break its teeth trying to chew up Ukraine. Kazan (Tatarstan) tried to become an independent state in the 90s, but wasn’t allowed to. The far east is just people forcefully deported from western territories, like Ukraine, Belarus, and whatnot. The far north is just some tribes they enslaved. There was never any Russia in the first place.

Hey, and the name is stolen from [Kyivan] Rus’ (Ruthenia), merely to claim rights on Ukraine, and puzzle everyone who won’t read a single book on the history of the region. Also, did you know they removed the very word Kyivan from the name in their history books? I’m not 100% sure that happened after the 2022 or prior to it. But it’s some recent ‘improvement,’ so to say. Before that, they coined the wrong name Kievan and Kiev as well. Kyiv was named after Kyi, not some Kie.

Ah, and the cherry on top, Belarus. Became Belorussia during the Russian occupation. White Russia. They call the country this way till today.

Even ~~fucking~~ Germans changed the name from literally White ~~fucking~~ Russia to Belarus. Just after the 2020 protests, when the elected Belarusian president asked them. Thank you very much. Yeah, must be nice calling a country White Russia. Fucking High Austrians, aren’t they? (No real disrespect for Germans, they’re the good guys this century. I’m just fucking around here right now.)