Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
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Genetics
The Russians are descended from men that emerged out of the Pontic step about 5000 years ago mixed with globular and fora European populations in modern day Eastern Poland. This is a genetic continuum on the North European plane that goes from Western Russia all the way to the Atlantic. So they want to be integrated into Europe. I get it. But the fundamental issue is if we had understood how the Russians viewed themselves and thought about themselves, we wouldn't have been as shocked that Putin made the mistake that he did.
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