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or invades it - russia will never join the eu- the russian army is still hostile toward the west


Why so , care to explain ?
remember i said in the future 30 yrs. or so . Don't look in the future through eyes of the past . cold war is over and coming years will only reinforce that idea .there r many reasons why russia will join eu, foremost of them is the fact that they r european. 1st- there is an increasing divide between the usa and europe and it'll only get bigger and bigger , and reason won't be just politics or economics , but also cause of the average americans identifying themselves more and more as american (fueled largely by the latin immigration and multiculturalism) and less indentifying of themselves as hyphented europeans in america . therefore it only makes sense for europe to have the biggest and potentially the best ( both militarily and economicly ) in their league or else the eu just won't have that necesarry pop . 2nd- Relatively speaking the chinese will be the strongest by then, and it'll actually be bad news more so for russia than the US . The population of russa will be 114 mil in 2050 (about 150 mil right now) , and the chinese population will be 1.5 bil (up from 1.25bil today ) , that much people can't fit into a 3.8 mil sq. mile area like china , they'll move north into the open barren ranges , they already r , look at the increasing number of chinese border crossers into russia in the last 10 years. the chinese people and government has always claimed the siberian north to be naturally and historically chinese, and this area had been snatched/forced/manipulated/stolen from them in the 19th/18th century when china was weak and beset w/problems and once china becomes strong they'll try at least once in this century to take back their land , they have a nutural/legitimate grivence against russia . Not to mention the land mentioned above is the world's richest natural resources laden area . As of right now there r only 8 mil russians living east of the urals , it's declining at a rapid rate ,and with the declining population there won't be much of a russian presence in asia , which leaves the door open for china and maybe even other countries to take potshots at the russian east . And that's why it makes sense for russia to join eu , if u r going to get beat up anyway , u might as well join a gang , and all the economic and military benefits will be huge add-ons.