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I would worry about Russia more. It will go bust sooner or later. If Russia is now a problem for everyone, then it can be not a problem but a disaster.

• baybal2 6y ago
  Yes, completely right. EU, and NATO will have a problem almost on the same scale if Russia collapses on them, as if it will launch an attack on them. Russia has 8 times the population of Syria, and people can't live on a big part of its territory without artificial heating (and thus fuel supplies; your heating bill is pretty much a live or die price in a lot of places there,) or completely reliant for on long range freight for essential supplies.
  • fit2rule 6y ago
    Russia is a very, very big country and economic unit. It may have been sanctioned into oblivion by its Western enemies, but its collapse before the USA devolves into civil war is anything but certain. >Russia has 8 times the population of Syria, and people can't live on a big part of its territory without artificial heating, or completely reliant for on long range freight for essential supplies. What part of this makes you think Russia is dependent on the Wests' criminal sanctions being lifted?
  • pjc50 6y ago
    This kind of already happened in the 90s? And to some extent is why the current problems exist.
    • baybal2 6y ago
      The state was far from complete failure, very far from it. Nowhere near Syria. The state kept control of the military. Troops were orderly demobilised. The criminality was comparatively low in comparison to Putin's years. The state-mafia fusion came long after the years immediately following the collapse. The same is for much of the industry, much of it has failed over nineties, and not immediately after. The remnants of state economy at least managed to keep supplies going. Utilities in cities on "life support" were failing, but otherwise kept working at any cost. If Russia will fail today, the collapse will be much less gradual, and this time, there will be a civil war, and warlordism, and famine, and mass humanitarian catastrophy.