Quote:Russia [136 million]: Moscow, Murmansk, Yakutsk, Yekaterinenburg. (Irkutsk and St. Petersburg both closed due to population loss; the embassies have been given to local superteams.)Is the IST sure they want to give away heavily-fortified bases? That didn't work so well when we tried it at the end of the Cold War... (See the fourth paragraph in this section of the appropriate Wikipedia article).
Although ... since IST's history and OTL's history had diverged significantly by this time, "sale, re-purchase, and demolition" could be adapted into a footnote in the IST timeline.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012