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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

I love how they've been peddling the "warm water port" thing since the cold war. Soviets were somehow always expanding in order to get that holy land of a "warm water port" and if they got it they would take over the world.

Now it turn out that the port was in ukraine the whole time! Dummy Soviets, you should have looked in your own country!

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

In fairness, climate change is something of a game changer

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think it just accelerates the class war. Everyone knows they'll be on borrowed time, and the effects are already hurting us.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I more meant in terms of Russia's access to fresh water ports. They're really in the catbird seat as the planet incinerates itself.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

oh damn I thought this was a different post lol. You are correct, climate change actually helps russia more than hinders, in the short term anyway.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except for the random explosions from methane pockets under the permafrost. Saw an interview of some siberians and they were like "oh yeah we hear massive explosions all the time from climate change, hope I'm not walking somewhere when one happens". Said they hear one every week

I also recall one study suggesting that the 'new' soil in Russia will not be arable and would need imported fertilizers to make any use of it.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

oh damn playing in the snow just got wayyyyy more dangerous

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Sure you aren't mixing this up with Canada/Greenland? It was my understanding that the soil in the tundra regions of Canada was extremely poor and useless for agriculture, while Russia's was qualitatively different and easier to farm in

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Though climate change will expand arable land in Russia in its northern latitudes, the northern topsoil tends to be thinner and more acidic than in Russia's most productive southern regions and would not make up for its losses. In fact, arable land shrank by more than half to just 120,000 acres in 2017.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/climate-change-will-reshape-russia

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I believe Canada is also similarly fucked or even worse, as their land will thaw into disease ridden stony swamps

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

makes sense, they used to be one contiguous biome

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

October Revolution island will actually be a nice place to live soon

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Dw all of north Russia will soon be filled with warm water ports

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