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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5519571" data-attributes="member: 24302">Russia would be more powerful with its new territories?  How?  Their economies are a fraction of Russia's.  No industrial might.  If Russia invades those countries it would most likely be to carve off ethnic Russian enclaves which they already did in Georgia.  Kazakhstan has a substantial ethnic Russian minority in its north which is where most of its prime agricultural land is.  China's navy is very limited.  They've built ships but none can go more than a 1000 miles from shore.  They aren't able to project power like the U.S. Navy can.  China gets 85% of its fuel and raw goods for manufacturing from other countries.  It's extremely vulnerable to having those goods cut off.</blockquote>