I'm having fun, so poof goes Russia

[Glen]

Frozen tundra goes bye bye, Central Asian beachfront property is a steal!

[Tetsu]

Damn, this is getting out of control. :p

As for the effects, I'm not quite sure. Who would replace Russia on the Security Council? Japan or Germany?

[Tielhard]

You have left lost of bits of Russia intact New Sibs, Nov. Zem., Wrangle, Sakhalin, the Chotcki (sp. ???) peninsula even, Commanders, Kuriles &c.

[Hermanubis]

Hmm, seems Kaliningrad is left…(wonder what will happen to it?)

[DarkSlavik]

now we have the Russian Ocean.

[Tetsu]

now we have the Russian Ocean.

I'd divide it into the Ural Sea and the Siberian Ocean.

[Gedca]

Sea level drops significantly.

[Glen]

You have left lost of bits of Russia intact New Sibs, Nov. Zem., Wrangle, Sakhalin, the Chotcki (sp. ???) peninsula even, Commanders, Kuriles &c.

Yeah, I did. That's okay. I just wanted to take away that large chunk of land and give Asia more coastline (no longer Eurasia since Europe and Scandinavia are now separate. Do we count Europe now as an island or continent? Scandinavia is an island, obviously, and I lean towards demoting Europe to island status without the Russian bit and a detached Scandinavia. But that is just me...

[Swede]

Europe keeps our continent status, and the way scandianvians talk of "down on the continent" makes more sense.

[Othniel]

Hmm, seems Kaliningrad is left…(wonder what will happen to it?)
It gets aborbed by the very happy Poland. :D

[DarkSlavik]

It gets aborbed by the very happy Poland. :D

na it goes back to Germany

[luakel]

I'm having fun, so poof goes Russia
:eek:
What happens when you're not having fun???

[Rabbit Scribe]

To: President Putin

From: Lackey Lackeyovich

RE: Hope you're enjoying the state visit to Sweden. We have good news and bad news. The good news is, we've finally got that warm-water port we've always wanted...

[DarkSlavik]

To: President Putin

From: Lackey Lackeyovich

RE: Hope you're enjoying the state visit to Sweden. We have good news and bad news. The good news is, we've finally got that warm-water port we've always wanted...

I wonder if Putin would fall for something like that, I think I will e-mail him and find out.

[luakel]

I wonder if Putin would fall for something like that, I think I will e-mail him and find out.
And.... He'd answer why?

[DarkSlavik]

And.... He'd answer why?

I don't know, he never has replyed to any of my E-mails.

[Glen]

Ah, an old thread that provided a big piece of land for the Output....

[euio]

Hmm, seems Kaliningrad is left…(wonder what will happen to it?)
THIS IS EAST PRUSSIA!!

[Glen]

THIS IS EAST PRUSSIA!!

Yeah, I left some of the islands too. Basically it is only contiguous Eurasian Russia that goes.

[Rubberduck3y6]

Any surviving Russian politicians set up a government in Kaliningrad, preventing any Polish or Lithuanian claims to the territory. Japan annexes Sakhalin however, despite Russian claims. Europe suffers a severe energy crisis with the Russian gas supplies gone. However, OTL central Asia, Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan become more habitable as the currents in the Siberian Ocean bring increased rainfall to these regions. Caspian oil resources are now easier to exploit as they can be shipped directly out. However no-one considers the largest country in the world suddenly disappearing into the ocean anything unusual.

[DuQuense]

?What if this happened in February 1939?

[Rockingham]

:eek:
What happens when you're not having fun???
He sinks Atlantis;)(wait, he already did that:eek:)

[Analytical Engine]

?What if this happened in February 1939?

Hitler goes (even more) nuts? :confused:

[the_lyniezian]

Can anyone think up what the possible climate effects would be? After all, a large area of land disappearing like that is going to cause some pretty hefty changes to world climate...

[DuQuense]

The new coast is at the border , of the Roaring Forties Westerlies, and the bitterly cold Easterlies of the Polar Vortex.
The open water has changed the Isolation factor, and the warm waters, will migrate the winter cold. ?How deep is the new Ocean?
The ability of tropical currents to reach the Arctic will speed the melting of the Arctic cap.
In fact the current double Ice Epoch is due to the arrangement of Continents preventing tropical water from reaching the poles.
This may just change that, preventing the glaciation that is suppose to start any time in the next 4000 years.

[Gandavien]

So Russia's gone from being the largest country on the Earth, to one of the smallest?

[alt_historian]

Any surviving Russian politicians set up a government in Kaliningrad, preventing any Polish or Lithuanian claims to the territory. Japan annexes Sakhalin however, despite Russian claims. Europe suffers a severe energy crisis with the Russian gas supplies gone. However, OTL central Asia, Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan become more habitable as the currents in the Siberian Ocean bring increased rainfall to these regions. Caspian oil resources are now easier to exploit as they can be shipped directly out. However no-one considers the largest country in the world suddenly disappearing into the ocean anything unusual.

Interesting stuff..

and yes, obviously no-one would be freaked out at all... :D