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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Study a little bit of the history of great power alliances and the group of "historically allied with Russia" becomes pretty large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization

6 members

 Armenia[note 1]
 Belarus[note 2]
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Russia
 Tajikistan

3 former members

 Azerbaijan
 Georgia
 Uzbekistan
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

History most decidedly did not start in 1992.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Armenia was part of the russia empire and USSR before for 170 years before that and still chose to ally with its oppressor lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I was actually talking about things like the Entente, the WW2 Allies, the League of Three Emperors, the Holy Alliance, the Quintuple Alliance, the League of the North, etc.