Russian state TV wants Moscow to conquer three US states
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Political scientist Sergey Mikheyev also suggested annexing two NATO member nations in Europe.

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In a recent appearance on Russia’s state-run television, Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheyev suggested that the country’s “empire” should grow to encompass three American states.

“I want the Russian empire with Alaska, Hawaii, California, Finland, and Poland,” he said, as translated by Gerashchenko for the clip he shared. “Although Poland and Finland are so stinky, I’m not sure, to be honest. We’ll clean them.”

  • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
    7·
    8 months ago

    To be fair, the Cheeto is not wrong.

    Forest fires naturally experienced small burns that take care of all of that and through human action of stopping that it is allowed a lot to build up and that is a huge cause of why there are so many giant wildfires right now

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Cheetoh is mixing two different messages:

      • yes, forests need care to prevent catastrophic fires, but that involves thing like guided logging, and letting the small fires go
      • yes, people need to rake and clear underbrush to make it tougher for the fire to spread on their property and up to their house

      However there’s only so much these can help when you’re building in high fire risk areas

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      And the effects of climate change making forest fires in general much more severe and more difficult to control.