Comments by "" (@FOLIPE) on "Demographic Deep Dive: Russia" video.

  1. You are disregarding that there's no evidence that birth rates of populations after the demographic transition pick up to pre-transition levels. The advantage that Kazakhs had was that their demographic transition happened later than that of russians, due to being rural and so on. Weirdly enough in some european countries the rural population is so old and probably some other issues like poorer, that rural fertility is lower than urban one!
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  2. It's hard to make such a strong differentiation between "empire" and "nation state" based on conquest or cultural plurality alone. Many so called european nation states are the fruit of conquest and successive waves of assimilation, demographic changes and population exchanges. Russia is different perhaps as due to scale and due to how different the peoples that ended up inside it are linguistically, religiously etc, but that was not necessarily true even at an european level before the two world wars.
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  3.  @kaiserbauch9092  Rússia didn't start assimilating these people in the last 10 or 20 years though, some have been in Russia for 200 or more years, and by now effectively share culture, language and religion, as well as relations of individual level, with ethnic Russians. I don't think being an ascending or declining power matters as much as those things and what kind of overarching ideology or identity they have. There are plenty of poor diverse nations out there which don't risk breaking appart, and at a global scale Russia is still reasonably wealthy.
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  4. Russia isn't a pariah state outside of the west
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  5. Most of the world is the consequence of some sort of past imperialist project, I don't know how that automatically makes inclusive dynamics "a façade". Especially when the alternative is what, a national state which excludes ethnic minorities, a multicultural federation? I think these things have to be analyzed in each specific case but I don't see evidence that the project of the russsin federation appears as more imperialist to many russian minorities than the project of the UK appears to certain Welsh or Scotts or the Spanish project to certain Catalunyans.
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  6. ​ @edvenify  If you think non westerners don't think about discrimination you are very wrong. Try discriminatiing against africans, asians and latin americans and see how it goes
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  7. Hahahaha Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok. I think you are delirious, building such arbitrary constructs like "europe" and "the rest of the world" and "our numbers". Would be funny if you weren't being serious
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  8. Now see the rest of the world, what happened there?
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  9. If the US did that then suddenly it would lose global power and they'd have a huge budget gap the world usd usage wouldn't finance anymore and they'd actually have to pay for. And not just with printing bills but actual stuff
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  10. They didn't have to let them in, and shouldn't have, as it just brought Nato trouble. Nato, the US mainly, did push for eastward expansion though, but not against Russia necessarily, at least until 2014, more like to try and expand western european institutions towards the east to integrate it
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