Invidious, bby, cmon

In perry anderson, he mainly explains it via peasant frontier: where state authority was established runaway peasants would likely be caught, so there was diffuse movement of peasants from formed state to the west (cossacks) and east. But this depends on which time period you talking about, because initial state involved eastern expansion (in 1500) was driven by one or the other khanate raids resulting in wars

Siberia was diffuse at first (connected with fur trade as mentioned and lumber maybe), and then centralized to reach pacific, but that was much later

Shade borders?

Earth posting videos of suspicious planetoids passing by, talking shit about solar wind hydrogen piracy (🌎 watching you, jupiter)

Cheap football t-shirts will be next

Ukraine is a proxy war (for usa interests), israel is a genocidal ally (as it’s acting in its own interests). Both would fold without USA support, but I think they are somewhat different. Ukraine wouldn’t dare to shit on usa, or do something against usa word, and they perform their politics completely dependent on usa. Israel acts and behaves with much more impunity, and its alignment with usa interests is very meh

Why does french regime host olympics, a way of bringing attention to their country, while they have post-fascist party nearly winning elections, suppressing indigenous kanak movements, taking political prisoners, brutalizing protestors, and authoritarian president passing laws by fiat? real 1936 vibes

One may never know.