Seems bad.

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    or somehow the material condition of living in the shadow of US forces Russia to gradually adopt socialist economic policy, because without economic planning, they don't have a good long-term chance of survival.

    Radhika Desai recently hosted a webinar with some Russian intellectuals who claim that the foreign policy consensus in Russia changed drastically after Feb 2022. While Putin has always talked a big game against the West, they say, the state was still in practice trying to participate/cooperate with the West. Now they are fully giving up on that and looking to building up the "world majority" for long term strategy.