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According to "War at the Top of the World" by Eric Margolis, it has historically been Russia's policy to try to expand to all its maritime borders. It has done so with the Black Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Pacific, but not the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

In it, he describes a scenario where the Russians control the Dardenelles, have naval bases on the Adriatic (thanks to the Serbs), and their own Gibraltar on the Indian Ocean at Gwadar or near Karachi linked to the Russian rail net at Tashkent. He even said, if Russia allied to India, it could bring Singapore and the Straits of Malacca "under Soviet naval guns."

He theorized that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the first move in an attempt to establish this, but it didn't work.

So how might this uber-Russia come about?
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