Huh… Russia is a country, not a federation of sovereign states. What’s this article surprised about? That governors didn’t pursue secessionist actions during an international war?
Well, in a base that very simple – Russia leaving out of oil (and other resources but first – oil). So basically free money/rent – which gov using. And that is it.
They’re afraid of returning to the chaos of the 90s while doing the exact same thing the Soviet Union didÂ
Like dude. The country is ran by a literal mafia boss. Every important figure is in its position because of Putjn. They all kiss his ass.
They are “resilient” because they guy deciding to be “resilient” is not the one facing the consequences of the “resilience”. AKA, Putin is a dictator who does not care for his serfs.
It is simpler
Fairly homogenous population
Common goal
Shared culture and ideology
Strong military and autkary economy
Self sufficient in what matters. Weapons. Food. Energy. As an exporter and self sufficient in Food, weapons, and energy they are sanction proof. They then turned or expanded their infrastructure that is used to make weapons and military equipment into a system able to manufacture a lot of their own good that they previously needed to import. They are now investing and working on their own semi conductors that are for civilian use. They also became drone self sufficient in a few years.
Lastly they have strong allies
Russia is an excess producer of all of the basics: food, energy, and materials. It’s that simple. Russia can choose to accept reduced economic growth (or even contraction) and still produce all of the things it needs for its people to survive and continue a war almost indefinitely. They just have to be willing to pay the price in lost economic output and human suffering – and it looks like they are willing. The thing that they will lose that impacts their ability to continue fighting is (eventually) access to imported components that they need for advanced weapons. Artillery tubes and the shells to fire from them can be made with technology from the early 20th century. It doesn’t even need to be [well made](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/w76f9a/have_a_look_at_this_barrel_from_a_russian_bmp/) to work.
Russia’s resilient, sure. But we keep predicting collapse using Western benchmarks. That mismatch is the misunderstanding.
Because, like in WW2, they had allies helping them (ie China now). If they were in the position they were in WW1, they wouldn;t be doing so well.
Russia (as a governing entity specifically) isn’t resilient. Putin is hell bent on pushing that narrative, but the reality is its quite fractured, just too scared to take any action.
For example, when Yevgeny pushed his attempted Coup on Putin he was exposing the “real” Russia putin didn’t want you to see. The only reason he didn’t succeed is because his backers were too scared to go through with the plan.
Putin rules with an iron fist, he relies on fear to push his narrative. One day the Russian people will be fed up and he will end up like Saddam Hussain or Gaddafi. This is putins true fear and he has done everything in his power to stop it over the course of his reign.
The Russian people are however highly resilient, they go through war after war, dictator after dictator yet still have the common humour to laugh it off with a shot of Vodka.
People are not the problem, people in power are the problem.
They’re not resilient. The Russians are nihilistic and defeatist. They’re so used to being ruled with an iron fist they just expect it.
Every time they have some revolution that promises to uplift the common man, the people that come into power just do more of the same. They step on the necks of commoners.
you can survive longer when you don’t play by the rules
the table he is shown to be sitting around shows that it is not really all that resilient for someone in his situation.
Russia has the cheapest commodities.
China has the cheapest capital.
India has the cheapest labour.
You can see where this is going.
Unlike most of the western countries, Russia can have millions of casualties and no one, even the Russians themselves cares.
Countries continue until they collapse. No amount of predictions will all be right. But if sanctions/ lack of trade etc. were enough, the Axis powers in WWII would’ve failed earlier. But there are mechanisms to keep a government going even when an outsider or even some insiders see it failing.
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Huh… Russia is a country, not a federation of sovereign states. What’s this article surprised about? That governors didn’t pursue secessionist actions during an international war?
Well, in a base that very simple – Russia leaving out of oil (and other resources but first – oil). So basically free money/rent – which gov using. And that is it.
They’re afraid of returning to the chaos of the 90s while doing the exact same thing the Soviet Union didÂ
Like dude. The country is ran by a literal mafia boss. Every important figure is in its position because of Putjn. They all kiss his ass.
They are “resilient” because they guy deciding to be “resilient” is not the one facing the consequences of the “resilience”. AKA, Putin is a dictator who does not care for his serfs.
It is simpler
Fairly homogenous population
Common goal
Shared culture and ideology
Strong military and autkary economy
Self sufficient in what matters. Weapons. Food. Energy. As an exporter and self sufficient in Food, weapons, and energy they are sanction proof. They then turned or expanded their infrastructure that is used to make weapons and military equipment into a system able to manufacture a lot of their own good that they previously needed to import. They are now investing and working on their own semi conductors that are for civilian use. They also became drone self sufficient in a few years.
Lastly they have strong allies
Russia is an excess producer of all of the basics: food, energy, and materials. It’s that simple. Russia can choose to accept reduced economic growth (or even contraction) and still produce all of the things it needs for its people to survive and continue a war almost indefinitely. They just have to be willing to pay the price in lost economic output and human suffering – and it looks like they are willing. The thing that they will lose that impacts their ability to continue fighting is (eventually) access to imported components that they need for advanced weapons. Artillery tubes and the shells to fire from them can be made with technology from the early 20th century. It doesn’t even need to be [well made](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/w76f9a/have_a_look_at_this_barrel_from_a_russian_bmp/) to work.
Russia’s resilient, sure. But we keep predicting collapse using Western benchmarks. That mismatch is the misunderstanding.
Because, like in WW2, they had allies helping them (ie China now). If they were in the position they were in WW1, they wouldn;t be doing so well.
Russia (as a governing entity specifically) isn’t resilient. Putin is hell bent on pushing that narrative, but the reality is its quite fractured, just too scared to take any action.
For example, when Yevgeny pushed his attempted Coup on Putin he was exposing the “real” Russia putin didn’t want you to see. The only reason he didn’t succeed is because his backers were too scared to go through with the plan.
Putin rules with an iron fist, he relies on fear to push his narrative. One day the Russian people will be fed up and he will end up like Saddam Hussain or Gaddafi. This is putins true fear and he has done everything in his power to stop it over the course of his reign.
The Russian people are however highly resilient, they go through war after war, dictator after dictator yet still have the common humour to laugh it off with a shot of Vodka.
People are not the problem, people in power are the problem.
They’re not resilient. The Russians are nihilistic and defeatist. They’re so used to being ruled with an iron fist they just expect it.
Every time they have some revolution that promises to uplift the common man, the people that come into power just do more of the same. They step on the necks of commoners.
you can survive longer when you don’t play by the rules
the table he is shown to be sitting around shows that it is not really all that resilient for someone in his situation.
Russia has the cheapest commodities.
China has the cheapest capital.
India has the cheapest labour.
You can see where this is going.
Unlike most of the western countries, Russia can have millions of casualties and no one, even the Russians themselves cares.
Countries continue until they collapse. No amount of predictions will all be right. But if sanctions/ lack of trade etc. were enough, the Axis powers in WWII would’ve failed earlier. But there are mechanisms to keep a government going even when an outsider or even some insiders see it failing.
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