• teflocarbon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As they mention in the article they anticipated a much slower collapse and likely prepared for that. But at the rate it’s currently going, it’s quite astounding. The fragmentation and internal strife in Russia are certainly not over.

    I did read one article that made a reference to this more being an “end of the beginning” rather than the “beginning of the end”. Which I agree with. It hasn’t collapsed the federation overnight, but it’s certainly weakened it a hell of a lot.

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      1 year ago

      Living in Russia, I have mixed feelings about this slow controlled collapse TBF.

      For Russia itself, maybe things being over after a couple of months (or years) of civil war starting in 1999 would be better.

      But for everybody else, of course, there are bigger risks associated with that. Not really something nuclear even, just economically less pleasant.