Like the previous one, I find it hilarious that the artist paints this as a dystopia, when going by the map itself it seems like a VASTLY superior timeline to the one we're stuck in
The description was tldr, read it here if you want: https://www.deviantart.com/gsnj/art/The-Man-in-the-High-Gulag-Part-II-in-Desc-822132519
Western fears about "enemy" states controlling territory close to them is exactly what "enemy" nations to the west have to deal with every day. Pure projection.
pretty much everything the west fears on a societal level is shit they did or do to other people. Government being taken over and run for foreigners, high tech aliens destroying their society and depopulating them to steal their land and resources, some kind of outside event causing their economic surplus to go somewhere else, leading to mass poverty and under-investment
It's almost like we're the baddies or something