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Guess we know where the second million Russian troop deaths will come from then.
The Taliban are probably all embarrassed about what trump could do in months versus what they tried to do in decades.
Tha Taliban are fighting against ISIS-K. ISIS-K is the terrorist organisation behind the terrorist attacks in Russia. I am pretty sure that even the US had some backchannel communication with the Taliban, in order to drone strike ISIS-K targets in Afghanistan(after the US had left Afghanistan).
Ngl I totally understand this one. When you're Russia it's not like you have a lot of options for international partners and the Taliban are straight up the government of Afghanistan. It's kind of awkward to try to make trade deals with one of the only countries still willing to trade with you when all of its leaders and officials are considered members of a banned terrorist organization. I suppose this is an issue any time there is a revolution, once the radicals are the actual government everyone has to re-evaluate how to deal with them.
Russia is an empire. Straight up, 100%. It should be called the Russian Empire—not the Russian Federation.
(Reminder: "empire" is a bad word lol.)
This is a braindead take. The word "empire" has a lot of cultural baggage with Russian nationalism and it is totally different than say "the Spanish Empire" or "The British Empire" because when Russians say "The Russian Empire" it is specifically referring to an idea within Russian nationalism that Russia is the successor state to Rome and all of the cultural and religious ideas that come with that. The idea is that Moscow is the "Third Rome" with the first being, well, Rome, the second being Constantinople, and after the fall of Constantinople, it went to Moscow because of the unique connection of the Rus' with the Byzantine empire and Eastern Christianity. To use the term "Russian Empire" would be a huge boost to Russian nationalists and accomplish nothing substantial for anyone else.