Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33193012-20170831093224/@comment-35417132-20170907202712

FirestormBlizzard wrote:

The monster without a name wrote: Against all of the ones mentioned. Hey, I never asked this because I assumed the answer... Monster, do you think the nations of the former Soviet Union should be Russian territory again? And... Do you think Chechnya and Tatarstan deserve a chance to be independent some day?

At the moment, I wouldn't support their independence due to large Muslim Populations. This would cause more extremism...

Yes, I would support the idea of some of the former USSR nations rejoining Russia. Those would include, most importantly, the five Central Asian republics in order to secure the southern flank of the empire, Belarus and Ukraine because of cultural and ethnic connections and to secure the European border against NATO-globalist expansion.

On the other hand, the Baltic states seem rather unnecessary to me. It seems they are pretty irrelevant, and their only value would stem from the fact that they are close to the heartland of central Russia, but besides that I do not see any need to incorporate them into the Russian state.

As for Chechnya and Tatarstan, and the other smaller nations of Russia, no I do not think they should be independent. Even from a practical, logical standpoint. They would only end up being poor countries with falling populations, like other post-Communist states of Eastern Europe, and would be much better off being part of Russia than being independent.