Russia’s economy is teetering on the brink of collapse, with industrial production taking a nosedive and major corporations initiating widespread layoffs as the impact of a three-year war with Ukraine inevitably hits home.

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    17 hours ago

    Interesting. Sounds like China is tired of propping them up. If China hadnt helped them out they’d be selling Siberia to China right about now. Xi Jinping might have wasted this conflict.

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    Unbelievable how much Russians had to be brainwashed and poor under USSR to still accept this in 2025.

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      Russian jingoism dates back to the tsardom. Virtually no one realises the Russian worldview that Russia is on its own who need to carve up their own sphere of influence to protect itself. And each major powers could do so on their own especially China with whom they share-- in Russian belief-- a space in the more important Eurasian heartland (contrast to Western Europe where they believe Western Europe and North America is the centre of the world). Basically, the Russian worldview, and therefore foreign policy, is dog-eat-dog. “You have your territory, we have ours.” Even prominent and seemingly liberal Russians, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn who was a critic of USSR, are ultranationalists and tribalists. Putin’s late opponent, Alexander Navalny, is also nationalistic and have poor view of the West. Only a handful of Russians look towards the West and searching for closer ties.

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    As is predicted. Even if the conflict ends and Moscow spins the aftermath as somehow a victory for Russians, reality will still haunt and bite them back.

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      It was and still is a very costly war. He even fired the old head of defense for an economist. It’s that important. Recovery is probably going to be really rough, especially if he can’t plunder Kiev.

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        Some could argue that the minerals in captured Eastern Ukraine could pay dividends for Russia, but it may not necessarily matter because Russia already has its own huge mineral reserves that pale what is in Eastern Ukraine.

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    Putin can’t have all those soldiers die and not have anything to show for it. People would be too angry. Between the deaths and the austerity, he’s in a bind and has to justify the hard times.