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Russia has gone to war with almost everyone in Europe or Asia at some point and there are no signs of stopping. Why does Russia behave like this? - Research: Mrs Scope - Audio Editor: Seb. Soto - Animation, voice over, research, and writing: Avery from History Scope Sources: - Short summary of the events: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union - https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/The-Gorbachev-era-perestroika-and-glasnost - The Collapse seen as at the time: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/26/world/end-of-the-soviet-union-the-soviet-state-born-of-a-dream-dies.html - Comparison between the USA’s economy and the Soviet economy: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000497165.pdf - Why the USSR collapsed: https://www.thoughtco.com/why-did-the-soviet-union-collapse-4587809 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/ - https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Minsk%20Revised%2C%20February%2011%2C%202025%20final%20PDF.pdf - https://www.understandingwar.org/report/confronting-russian-challenge - M. Favereau, The Horde, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambirdge (2021) - D. Morgan - The Decline and Fall of the Mongol Empire. JRAS, Series 3, 19, 4 (2009), pp. 427–437 - J. W. Dardess (1972) From Mongol Empire to Yüan Dynasty: Changing Forms of Imperial Rule in Mongolia and Central Asia, Monumenta Serica, 30:1, 117-165 - S. G. Shaw - The Mongol Empire – the First ‘gunpowder empire’? Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 23 / Issue 03 / July 2013, pp 441 - 469