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Essay: Russia's failed attempts to be in the first ranks of the great powers through authoritarian rule and Russian imperialism (view source)
Revision as of 03:06, January 11, 2025
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== Is Russia a failed state? ==
[[File:Map of federal subjects of Russia (2022).png|thumbnail|right|thumbnail|400px|Map of Russia.
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Approximately 7% of Russia's land is arable and suitable for agricultural production.]]
'''Question:''' Is Russia a failed state?
Consider:
[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.
The 2023 article [https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/05/03/russia-has-failed-as-a-state/ Russia has failed as a state] published by Modern Diplomacy indicates: "Britannica explained that a failed state is the one that “cannot protect its national boundaries". April 26, 2023 head of the Russian Committee of defense of the Russian State Duma suggested that Russian citizens should be mobilized to protect Russian borders acknowledging that Russia has no resources for that, comparing the current inability of the state to the previous mighty USSR."
Ukraine, which has a much smaller population of Russia, invaded Russia in 2024. It did so in the southern Kursk region of Russia (See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyXKgx71wg Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine's Surprise Attack in Russia's Kursk Region], video and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcB8XxCW3I8 Ukraine invades Russia: Russian civilians seek shelter as fighting rages], video). Russia was caught completely by surprise and was unprepared for the attack. In addition, Ukraine used innovative drone tactics to blind Russian S-400 air defenses and take out Russia's Khalino Air Base which is located in Kursk Oblast, Russia (See: [https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/43834 How Ukraine Took Out Russia’s Khalino Air Base with Advanced Tactics], Kyiv Post, December 23, 2024 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW7AOjRijBA Ukraines Masterstroke - Russian Khalino Air Base TOTALLY OBLITERATED], Military Show YouTube channel, 2025).
On August 22, 2024, ''The Hill'' published the article ''Another Russian mercenary leader has turned against Putin'' which stated:
{{Cquote|A little over a year ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s former cook and the founder of the notorious Wagner private military company, launched a coup attempt that fizzled quickly. But, significantly, the Russian military and security services did nothing to stop it. They just watched — hardly a sign of their loyalty to Putin.
A few days ago, Georgy Zakrevsky, another head of a private military company, effectively called on Russians to get rid of the “Great” Putin (his modifier, not mine). When the guys with the guns start making fun of your greatness, it may be time to read the writing on the wall...
Here’s Zakrevsky’s diatribe against Putin, in my translation:
“Our country is not just on the brink of disaster or already right next to it; our country is already in trouble. In big trouble. Drones are flying all over central Russia, right up to Moscow and St. Petersburg. They even attacked the Kremlin. Our Black Sea fleet is being pushed out. It’s being pushed out as if we were not a great power with a great fleet, but some third-rate country.
“Our air force is practically not working because it is also being pushed out. We are standing in the same positions that we took more than two years ago, and partly in those to which we retreated. The population is dying out, becoming impoverished, drinking itself to death: no one cares. All they have time to do is bring in migrants.”
Zakrevsky minces no words in assigning blame for this sad state of affairs: “And all this was done by the so-called ‘president.’ The ‘Great’ Putin.”<ref>[https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4839613-another-russian-mercenary-leader-has-turned-against-putin/ ''Another Russian mercenary leader has turned against Putin''], ''The Hill'', August 22, 2024</ref>}}
"Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time." - International relations scholar [[John Mearsheimer]]<ref>[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-18/why-ukraine-crisis-west-s-fault Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault] by John Mearsheimer, ''Foreign Affairs'', September/October 2014, Published on August 18, 2014</ref>
== Russian imperialism ==
== Russian imperialism ==