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The Inevitable Fall of Putin’s New Russian Empire (foreignpolicy.com)

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Archive.org fails to bypass firewall, ghostarchive fails altogether, archive.today is not happy with my work IP today. Would appreciate anyone posting an archive link of sorts for everyone as I've found the write up very interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting article but needed more details about why the current Russian empire fails to meet the characteristics of a failing empire.

Back up pretty much all states and empires will be temporary in a large enough timeframe. Doesn't say anything about it this failure will happen within our lifetime or in 1000 years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well. The article says you need strong military, strong economy and strong institutions to hold the empire up. The military has been proven to only be strong in numbers, not in actual power; economy has been weak before the invasion, is in complete shambles currently, only held up by massive intervention; and corruption has completely destroyed any efficacy of the government. Can't conquer a nation without a way to uphold your order.

It does imply the fall of empire within putin's lifetime.