Will the Russian Federation Survive Until 2024?
The New York Sun,
by
James Brooke
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
6/18/2023 7:07:31 AM
In 1970, the Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik wrote an essay with a heretical title: “Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?” That earned him derision in the West. From the East, he won a five-year stay in an Arctic labor camp.
Today’s heretical question might be: Will the Russian Federation survive until 2024? For below Russia’s impassive surface, new forces are in motion, ones that could threaten Vladimir Putin’s hold on power.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
plomke 6/18/2023 8:02:30 AM (No. 1494417)
The better question is will the US survive what the political class has in store for us in the next eighteen months.
More bio weapons(Fauci like flu).
More inflation.
More wars.
More invaders from the south.
More gorebal warming induced regulations.
Yeah...batten your hatches,its gonna be bumpy ride...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/18/2023 9:47:22 AM (No. 1494518)
Let’s hope not...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/18/2023 11:06:08 AM (No. 1494599)
Yes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/18/2023 11:28:40 AM (No. 1494613)
Any new government will most likely be run by thugs. Russia bumbled away any chance of a representative form of government after the USSR imploded.
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What a mess, and the reality on the ground is probably worse than how Brooke describes things. Russia is the classic example of how there is no room for corruptive money and power in a functional society. Once ingrained, there's no getting rid of it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2023 12:11:36 PM (No. 1494655)
Forty Private Military Companies are running inside Russia by various oligarchs, each a heavily armed private army which responds only to the billionaire thug that owns it. I would estimate that these billionaires inside Russia have the best access to all of the inside information and rumors on what is actually happening politically and economically in the country, and have decided that tens or hundreds of millions spent on raising a private army is a 'good investment'. At least to protect them from being attacked by a highrise window.
I can't see that is anything but dramatically destabilizing for the country.
Historically, these sorts of 'warlords' usually wind up warring amongst themselves, joining into various alliances of convenience, with widespread violence. This is what Somalia descended into (although in some places the "decent" is a very short trip from 'normal') before BillyJeff imported hundreds of thousands of these Islamic barbarians to destroy Minnesota. I actually hope that Russia doesn't descend into this sort of chaos, but I have no input on it at all, and Putin has set the course, and seems to insist on continuing his failed war.
As Putin has proven his weakness, and the Russian military continues to founder and struggle on the battlefield, now there are small bands of perhaps a few dozens of armed Russian men making incursions into border regions, and the Russian army is reported by Russians to respond with shelling their own cities. Russians post online about "why is my government blowing up my home?". Local politicians plead for help from Moscow.
And most of this is very little covered by the US Enemedia, some by British news sources and some independent journalists in the region.
Putin has created instability with his weakness and failures, and the 'sharks' with their PMCs seem to be sensing political 'blood in the water', an opportunity to gain power. I am glad to not be traveling inside Russia any more.
And will China finally see it's chance to step in an take control of parts of far eastern Russia, literally 6-7,000 miles from Moscow? That area is thinly populated with Russians, far from the Kremlin and very near to hundreds of millions of Chinamen, literally dozens of miles away.
I have no idea what will happen, but it doesn't look good.
I encourage those who will 'pooh-pooh' this as "all fake" to spend some time looking at alternate information sources. Try Jake Broe, or William Spaniel, or Silicon Curtain and learn some things.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mofongo 6/18/2023 12:22:10 PM (No. 1494659)
Apparently, The Sun is part of the coordinated anti-Russia propaganda. Goebbels would be astounded at how seamless it is. Some fun facts. Russia’s annual military expenditures are $65 billion vs $850 billion in the US. Its national debt is $450 billion vs $32 trillion in the US. Russian income tax is a flat 13%. (Multimillionaires pay 15%.) Russians have one of the best educated populations in the world. And the BRICS are readying a reserve currency to rival the dollar. So which country is set to tackle the future?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/18/2023 12:33:28 PM (No. 1494665)
Russia plays a big part in End Times eschatology, as do the "kings of the east". America is not mentioned.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2023 12:48:32 PM (No. 1494685)
So, now the facts leaking out are "anti-Russian propaganda" for the experts who get all their deep insight from CNN, and Fox News?
Beware looking only at one side of this complex issue, it's what makes people look very foolish after the fact.
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