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They've only had five genuinely bad times that were not caused by themselves in the last 1,000 years.
>Mongol invasion.
Yeah, that sucked NGL but it happened to a lot of other people tool.
>Napoleonic invasion
Other people had it bad too.
>WW1
Other people had it bad too.
>WW2
Other people had it bad too.
>1991/collapse of the USSR.
Basically like the Great Depression that every other country survived in the 1930s and Russia was able to skip at that time and still largely caused by Russians themselves via corruption. The West maybe has a SLIGHT responsibility for it being worse than it could have been.
>Muh NATO
Literally just don't attack a member and you are fine.
