France vs. Russia

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France, but it's close. Currently I'm pretty hawkish on Russia due to their recent actions, and due to our president-elect being too friendly to them, having a conflict of interest. Relative to Trump I am very hawkish on Russia. And it sucks how white supremacists worship Russia for colonizing Siberia, sending money to Le Pen and whatnot. But overall Russia is a great country. In the grand scheme of things it is great. Russian literature, Russian music, Russian chess players and Olympians. Where would we be without Anna Karenina? Russian history is so fascinating.

Even though Communism was such a terrible ideology it was just so interesting from a human standpoint. They, like the French, taught us about revolution. And you gotta admit, you can at once hate Stalin and appreciate that he took a backward agrarian country into a global superpower in 30 years. Unlike Hitler who inherited what was already basically an industrialized country that just happened to be suffering ill effects from a depression. Stalin molded nearly the equal of the U.S. from a land of peasants.