I’ve been hearing about how Russia is about to collapse economically, lose the war, and watch Putin die from cancer for… years now. It’s just clickbait at this point.
Most people want instant gratification and the media knows it. The fact is that most institutional collapse don’t happen overnight, but a slow burn one. Russia is indeed losing economically from the war, but it will be like with USSR when the war in Afghanistan slowly drained Soviet coffers. Although in my opinion, the consequences could worse than the aftermath of USSR’s collapse. China will vassalise Russia, which is contrary to the aim of Putin in making Russia an independent major power.
While you’re right that these things happen over time, there are often sudden watershed moments where the change becomes much more obvious than before, and those can precipitate more sudden actions to follow. Not everything is a slow forever burn with slovenly people like me yawning on the sidelines crying “borrring!”
It isn’t a clickbait. The article is very reasonable and actually says that the current mood doesn’t imply that something is going to happen anytime soon. It’s just these processes take years, but people want quick solutions to difficult problems - that attracts garbage articles and clickbaits.
It’ll mean something when they actually do something about it. Everyone grumbles about shit.
I’ve been hearing about how Russia is about to collapse economically, lose the war, and watch Putin die from cancer for… years now. It’s just clickbait at this point.
Most people want instant gratification and the media knows it. The fact is that most institutional collapse don’t happen overnight, but a slow burn one. Russia is indeed losing economically from the war, but it will be like with USSR when the war in Afghanistan slowly drained Soviet coffers. Although in my opinion, the consequences could worse than the aftermath of USSR’s collapse. China will vassalise Russia, which is contrary to the aim of Putin in making Russia an independent major power.
While you’re right that these things happen over time, there are often sudden watershed moments where the change becomes much more obvious than before, and those can precipitate more sudden actions to follow. Not everything is a slow forever burn with slovenly people like me yawning on the sidelines crying “borrring!”
It isn’t a clickbait. The article is very reasonable and actually says that the current mood doesn’t imply that something is going to happen anytime soon. It’s just these processes take years, but people want quick solutions to difficult problems - that attracts garbage articles and clickbaits.
So it is clickbait. I understand that it’s our fault for being filthy numbskulls who want quick solutions. But we agree it is clickbait.
No.
Honestly grumbling about Putin himself is a change in Russia. They’ve traditionally applied good tsar, bad boyars to him.
The modern form of this is, “SHOIGUUUU! GERASIMOV!!!”
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They aren’t upset that he started a war, just that he hasn’t been very good at it.