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> - Russia is being taken down a peg Unfortunately, I feel that may be an understatement. My fear is that the Russian Federation may not exist after ~April of
by Balgair 4y ago
> - Russia is being taken down a peg
Unfortunately, I feel that may be an understatement. My fear is that the Russian Federation may not exist after ~April of next year. That it will splinter into many nuclear armed states.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> That it will splinter into many nuclear armed states. Definitely a serious cause for concern, but not uncharted territory. Remember this already happened to the Soviet Union, and ultimately things were arranged so only one nation inherited those nukes. It may happen like that again.
- baybal2 4y ago
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- paxys 4y agoThere aren't really any states to splinter it into. Maybe if you count Crimea, Kaliningrad, Chechnya, Caucasus, Tatarstan, but those are all relatively powerless. Moscow has absolute control over the economy and military. A more realistic (but still very unlikely) outcome is a power vacuum if Putin is deposed, which will be filled by another aspiring dictator just like him.