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Originally Posted by ikalugin
You can always join Mother Russia.
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You bet
Though i do not really trust Putin or his forerunners (excluding Gorbatchev and, partially, Yeltsin), i had high hopes at the high time of the "Petersburger Dialog", but the exchange has become considerably colder after the Ukraine and Krim events.
Apart from the US having had a direct interest in Europe and West Germany after the war (for political reasons
and marketing), it does not make so much sense for Europe
now, in exclusively having trade with a country 4000 km away over the sea, while ignoring a direct neighbour who can be easily reached by terrestrial transports.
But.. sanctions.
Can Russia be a reliable partner now? It would have been possible in the 199ies, before we all screwed that up, but now?