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| | + | [[File:512px-Changing the guards kremlin.jpeg|thumbnail|right|400px|thumbnail|[[Goose step]]ping changing of the guards in Russia at the Kremlin in 2006.<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Changing_the_guards_kremlin.JPG Changing of the guards in Russia at the Kremlin, 2006]</ref> |
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| | + | *Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfzAI9nrtQ Goose-stepping guards at the Kremlin] |
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| | + | "Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time." - International relations scholar [[John Mearsheimer]] |
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| | + | See: [https://archive.ph/Jqu2p#selection-637.0-637.99 Almost half of global strategists think Russia could become a failed state within the next 10 years], Fortune magazine, January 23, 2023 |
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| | *[[Essay: Doomsday phobias - including nucleomituphobia caused by Russian threats to use a nuclear bomb|Doomsday phobias - including nucleomituphobia caused by Russian threats to use a nuclear bomb]] | | *[[Essay: Doomsday phobias - including nucleomituphobia caused by Russian threats to use a nuclear bomb|Doomsday phobias - including nucleomituphobia caused by Russian threats to use a nuclear bomb]] |
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| | *[[Essay: Vladimir Putin's foolish decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022|Vladimir Putin's foolish decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022]] | | *[[Essay: Vladimir Putin's foolish decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022|Vladimir Putin's foolish decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022]] |
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