Russia

On a continent full of little pissant countries with little pockets of small tribes all packed together, how did this monstrosity come to occupy one THIRD of Europe with all its ethnic minorities pushed into the fringe regions?
Look at all the little Slav groups in Germany or Turk villages in the Balkans, a Russian oblast is bigger than these entire countries and none of that diversity, linguistic or otherwise

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because most of russia is empty land

And most of, say, Poland isn't?

we're god's chosen

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not particularly

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Who cares? Why do Americans assume a country being big = good? It only leads to problems. 99,999% of big countries are absolute hellholes.

he poked the cat
thats cute

1) high testosterone 2) good managment (not valid after 1917) 3) weak neighbours 4) protestant work ethic 5) high IQ

but mostly just weak neighbours

>how
Absolutely backwards finno-ugric and mongol tribes with little to no government who ended up being easy to control + yeah, most of the country is pretty much empty and unlivable

This has nothing to do with good or bad, it's just a curious thing that a big country is so close to tiny countries, and the tiny countries are the ones that have a bunch of little ethnic minorities you've never heard of whilst an entire third to half of Europe's lands speak a single language. Who the fuck ever heard of the Gagauz, for example, turns out they occupy a little sliver of Moldova which is itself a country you can drive across in two hours. You don't see this shit around the Don River basin, it's all Russians for hundreds of miles and it always has been, this is unheard of in central Europe even though Austria-Hungary and Turkey were historically big countries occupying those areas