I'm relatively sanguine at the moment; they have achieved their long term goal of European hegemony via the economic route and may be sated on the misery of Greek and Italian peasants for a while.
Eventually, of course, they will look east; that is inevitable. But I'm hopeful it will take a few years yet.
I don't think Ivan will ever take his eye off that particular ball again.
Ivan is skint though, and will be getting skinter as reliance on his gas diminshes.
Anyway, there's Poland and Czecho and so on to be gobbled into Fuhrerin Merkel's maw first, as a sort of appetiser.
True. At the end of the day, Russia is just remarkably shît at everything, isn't it? Autocracy was a failure, communism was a failure and now they've even failed at capitalist democracy. They are ultimately rubbish.
True. At the end of the day, Russia is just remarkably shît at everything, isn't it? Autocracy was a failure, communism was a failure and now they've even failed at capitalist democracy. They are ultimately rubbish.
A simple rule; draw a line connecting Hamburg to Stuttgart and then carry it on down to Rome. Anywehere east of this line is barbarous territory populated by savages.
A simple rule; draw a line connecting Hamburg to Stuttgart and then carry it on down to Rome. Anywehere east of this line is barbarous territory populated by savages.
That is pretty much what the Romans did, to be fair. Sharp lads, those.
A simple rule; draw a line connecting Hamburg to Stuttgart and then carry it on down to Rome. Anywehere east of this line is barbarous territory populated by savages.
Hang on - Prague has a Marks & Spencer food store. Isn't that the very definition of civilisation?