justinacolmena
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Russian troops are amassing at the border of Ukraine and threatening war on Europe. There's an East Asian theater to that war.
Birobidzhan, the town hall administrative center of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast, is situated about 1226km north-northeast of Pyongyang, North Korea. According to Wikipedia, "Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish entities in the world, the other being the State of Israel." We might as well say there are three, including New York City in the United States, if its status as such isn't official under a constitution ignored by the government anyways.
So being a "town hall administrative center," Birobidzhan is, because it is Jewish, naturally, a "first among equals" of administrative centers of various oblasti and kraya throughout the Russian Federation. This is the back room of the absolute despotism of city hall, where the cards are dealt by the powerful ones by whose permission alone princes, governors and mayors rule over their respective districts throughout Russia, much as they did before the Revolution by permission of the French-speaking royalty. This is the place written of by L. Fry, Waters Flowing Eastward.
So when Russia goes to war, Israel and North Korea will presumably be on its side against the West.
Birobidzhan, the town hall administrative center of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast, is situated about 1226km north-northeast of Pyongyang, North Korea. According to Wikipedia, "Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish entities in the world, the other being the State of Israel." We might as well say there are three, including New York City in the United States, if its status as such isn't official under a constitution ignored by the government anyways.
So being a "town hall administrative center," Birobidzhan is, because it is Jewish, naturally, a "first among equals" of administrative centers of various oblasti and kraya throughout the Russian Federation. This is the back room of the absolute despotism of city hall, where the cards are dealt by the powerful ones by whose permission alone princes, governors and mayors rule over their respective districts throughout Russia, much as they did before the Revolution by permission of the French-speaking royalty. This is the place written of by L. Fry, Waters Flowing Eastward.
So when Russia goes to war, Israel and North Korea will presumably be on its side against the West.