It’s more like stagnation, not really decline… although their sphere of influence is declining
Sounds a lot more like Europe’s problem than a problem for the US I’m 100% behind closing all European bases and reducing the military budget
Article gives no data to support ‘great power’ of rissia. While declining share of russian GDP in world says opposite. My personal opinion of what’s lost:
– aircraft industry. Sources: people working there were proclaiming death in 2010. Confirmed by failure of Superjet 100 project and buggy Su-57 still not produced en mass and not sold to anyone.
– space program. Despite rare starts of historical rockets leading position lost and new models are not seen in production. No more big sells, pure promises and huge funds misapprehensions.
Which big promises didn’t happen:
– CPU Elbrus didn’t get to market being declined even by internal agencies due to limited functionality.
– mega x27 hypersonic rocket turned out crazy man fantasies and cartoons.
– self-sustainable economy goal flopped resulting in labeling Chinese goods as ‘made in russia’. Above mentioned Superget 100 had 80% imported parts.
With major income resource, oil and gas, loosing demand with Europe switching to green and China – to alternative sources, there will be not much money to import machinery and food. Russia had already updated gov. norms reducing bread quality. And that’s just one of number of hidden cracks in the ‘great power’ hull.
Modern day Russia is still benefiting from inheriting the power and talent of the USSR. This benefit is dissipating year by year as the older generation dies off and old military hardware falls into disrepair. This could of all been avoided had Russia chosen after the turmoil of the 90s to invest the money they were making in the 2000s to improve education and infrastructure. Unfortunately, Putin spent all that money buying loyalty and perpetuating an incredibly corrupt government. Perpetual delusion of NATO aggression made it so the rest of the money was spent re-militarizing. This delusion led to sanctions and the perpetual stagnation of Russia that we now see today. Until Putin finally departs and someone comes into power who is willing to overthrow the oligarchs and modernize Russia, Russia will continue to stagnate and decline.
It’s honestly rather sad that the people who first sent man into outer space and made so much scientific progress is now a mafia state with an economy that is pretty much a gas station.
To quote kremlin: “It’s just a flu”
Russia have abundant resources and only 144 m population
What a joke lol.
Economically, the economy crashed in 2014 when oil dipped thanks to poor fiscal planning.
As far as their military might go, it’s regional only. Georgia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Middle East, parts of Asia. They’re not a direct threat to the U.S. or anyone in NATO.
It’s not that their decline has been greatly exaggerated but their global power has always been greatly exaggerated.
They’re a regional power, slowly losing bits in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region to not only the U.S. and NATO but China as well.
>The Russian military today is not the poorly trained and ill-equipped conscript rabble that fared so poorly in Chechnya in the mid-1990s.
Ummmm are they not aware of what happened in Georgia? They had many self-inflicted casualties. The only military engagement that can be labeled effective is their work in Syria.
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It’s more like stagnation, not really decline… although their sphere of influence is declining
Sounds a lot more like Europe’s problem than a problem for the US I’m 100% behind closing all European bases and reducing the military budget
Article gives no data to support ‘great power’ of rissia. While declining share of russian GDP in world says opposite. My personal opinion of what’s lost:
– aircraft industry. Sources: people working there were proclaiming death in 2010. Confirmed by failure of Superjet 100 project and buggy Su-57 still not produced en mass and not sold to anyone.
– space program. Despite rare starts of historical rockets leading position lost and new models are not seen in production. No more big sells, pure promises and huge funds misapprehensions.
Which big promises didn’t happen:
– CPU Elbrus didn’t get to market being declined even by internal agencies due to limited functionality.
– mega x27 hypersonic rocket turned out crazy man fantasies and cartoons.
– self-sustainable economy goal flopped resulting in labeling Chinese goods as ‘made in russia’. Above mentioned Superget 100 had 80% imported parts.
With major income resource, oil and gas, loosing demand with Europe switching to green and China – to alternative sources, there will be not much money to import machinery and food. Russia had already updated gov. norms reducing bread quality. And that’s just one of number of hidden cracks in the ‘great power’ hull.
Modern day Russia is still benefiting from inheriting the power and talent of the USSR. This benefit is dissipating year by year as the older generation dies off and old military hardware falls into disrepair. This could of all been avoided had Russia chosen after the turmoil of the 90s to invest the money they were making in the 2000s to improve education and infrastructure. Unfortunately, Putin spent all that money buying loyalty and perpetuating an incredibly corrupt government. Perpetual delusion of NATO aggression made it so the rest of the money was spent re-militarizing. This delusion led to sanctions and the perpetual stagnation of Russia that we now see today. Until Putin finally departs and someone comes into power who is willing to overthrow the oligarchs and modernize Russia, Russia will continue to stagnate and decline.
It’s honestly rather sad that the people who first sent man into outer space and made so much scientific progress is now a mafia state with an economy that is pretty much a gas station.
To quote kremlin: “It’s just a flu”
Russia have abundant resources and only 144 m population
What a joke lol.
Economically, the economy crashed in 2014 when oil dipped thanks to poor fiscal planning.
As far as their military might go, it’s regional only. Georgia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Middle East, parts of Asia. They’re not a direct threat to the U.S. or anyone in NATO.
It’s not that their decline has been greatly exaggerated but their global power has always been greatly exaggerated.
They’re a regional power, slowly losing bits in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region to not only the U.S. and NATO but China as well.
>The Russian military today is not the poorly trained and ill-equipped conscript rabble that fared so poorly in Chechnya in the mid-1990s.
Ummmm are they not aware of what happened in Georgia? They had many self-inflicted casualties. The only military engagement that can be labeled effective is their work in Syria.