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[[File:United States flag in the wind.jpg|thumb|center|500px|The United States will likely be the strongest country for the foreseeable future and this is due to the strengths of the USA and partly due to the weaknesses of China and Russia.

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[[File:Assisi Frescoes-entry-into-jerusalem Palm Sunday PDWC.jpg|thumbnail|700px|center|"Triumphal [[User:Conservative/mailbox|Entry]] into Jerusalem" by Pietro Lorenzetti, Fresco. Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. Lower Basilica, [[User:Conservative/Music & Thinking|Assisi]], Italy. 1320.]]

See: [[Essay: The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future|The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future]]]]

[[Image:Jesus resurrected.jpg|center|400px|thumb|"The [[Resurrection of Jesus Christ|Resurrection]]" [[User:Conservative/Music & Thinking|by]] Carl Heinrich Bloch.]]

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[[File:512px-Changing the guards kremlin.jpeg|thumbnail|center|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>

[[File:Augvic1.jpg|center|500px|thumbnail|The Lutheran Ascension Church at Augusta Victoria Foundation, Jerusalem]]

[[Image:Milan Cathedral.jpg|center|thumbnail|600px|Cathedral of [[Milan]] (Duomo)]]

*Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfzAI9nrtQ Goose-stepping guards at the Kremlin]

"Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time." - International relations scholar [[John Mearsheimer]]

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

For more information, please see: [https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/2024/11/will-russia-become-failed-state-is.html Will Russia become a failed state within 10 years? Is Russia currently a failed state? Will Russia eventually become a failed state?] ]]

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[[File:Notre-Dame de Paris, 4 October 2017.jpg|thumbnail|center|800px|[[Notre Dame de Paris]] ]]

[[File:AK 47.JPG|thumbnail|center|600px|"The [[Kalashnikov]] has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars." - The character Yuri Orlov, Lord of War movie, 2005 <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJD2ObT3p44 'A Weapon All Fighters Love' | Lord Of War]</ref>

[[File:Cathédrale, AmiensTP (1).JPG|center|800px|thumbnail|Amiens Cathedral in [[Amiens]], [[France]] ]]

[[File:Koeln (Cologne) Germany.jpg|center|thumb|800px|Cologne Cathedral]]

[[File:Saint Patrick's Cathedral NYC.jpg|thumbnail|center|400px|Saint Patrick's Cathedral in [[New York City]].]]

*[[Essay: Are the Russians as unhappy as they claim they are?|Are the Russians as unhappy as they claim they are?]]

*[https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/2024/11/russia-land-of-potholes-and-bad-roads.html Russia: A land of potholes, bad roads and deteriorating car quality!] ]]

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[[File:Massive sewage geyser.png|thumbnail|center|500px|Skyscraper-high sewage plume of feces erupts in Moscow.[https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/2024/11/russias-sewage-system-crisis.html] 

[[File:Reknown blue domes of the Church dedicated to St. Spirou in Firostefani, Santorini island (Thira), Greece.jpg||center|500px|thumbnail|Reknown blue domes of the Church dedicated to St. Spirou in Firostefani, Santorini island (Thira), Greece. See also: [[Greek Orthodox Church]] ]]

See: [https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/2024/11/russias-sewage-system-crisis.html Russia's sewage system crisis] ]]

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[[File:Russian roads.png|thumbnail|center|600px|Read: [https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/2024/11/russia-land-of-potholes-and-bad-roads.html Russia: A land of potholes, bad roads and deteriorating car quality!] ]]

[[File:Santhome Basilica.jpg|thumbnail|center|420px|St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica, Chennai, India]]

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[[File:Butter.jpg|thumbnail|center|400px|I used to be more interested in Russia, but the [https://www.newsweek.com/russians-resort-stealing-butter-amid-shortages-1976575 ButterGate] scandal put a damper on that.  

[[File:1346559595 d6ae193721.jpg|thumbnail|center|420px|Christ Church in Shimla, India is the second oldest church in North India.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia's war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but the price of butter itself is now soaring as surging inflation distorts parts of the economy. The price of a block of butter has risen by 25.7 per cent since December, according to the state statistics service.

The pipe organ in the church is largest organ in India.]]

[[File:Kyiv St.Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.jpg|center|500px|thumbnail|St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Ukraine]]

'The Armageddon with butter is escalating,' Russian economists claim on Telegram.

See: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-wartime-economy-butter-price-inflation-1.7371742 Butter prices soar in Russia amid surging inflation in war economy], CBC News, November 2, 2024 and [https://www.newsweek.com/russians-resort-stealing-butter-amid-shortages-1976575 Russians Resort to Stealing Butter Amid Shortages], ''Newsweek'', October 29, 2024 ]]

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[[File:Trump tariffs.png|center|600px|thumbnail|Read: [https://www.reuters.com/world/china/why-chinas-economy-is-more-vulnerable-trump-tariffs-this-time-2024-11-06/ Why Trump tariffs pose a bigger threat to China’s economy this time], Reuters, November 2024]]

[[File:St. Sophia's Cathedral Kiev.jpg|thumbnail|center|500px|St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine.]]

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[[File:House-of-cards.jpg|thumbnail|center|500px|In the coming years and decades, the slowing Chinese economy will show that it is a fragile house of cards.

[[File:1024px-Володимирський собор, вид зі сторони входу.jpg|thumbnail|center|500px|Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral in Ukraine.]]

See: [[Essay: It's time to be very bearish about China's long-term economy|It's time to be very bearish about China's long-term economy]] ]]

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