Putin has withstood the West’s best efforts to reverse his invasion of Ukraine, and his hold on power is firm. The U.S. and its allies need a new strategy: containment.
Soviet legacy factories are outperforming Western factories when it comes to much-needed items like artillery she
lol, lmao
Putin’s Russia has little of the hard power or ideological appeal that made the Soviet Union so influential in various parts of the world
The irony is, that Krushtchev and his whole "exporting the revolution" really have fucked everything up imo. Now that there's no Soviet Union at all, there's not as much ideological warfare in the global South against Russian or Chinese influence, only pragmatic geopolitics.
What can anti-communist propaganda achieve against a capitalist nation and a nation that operates on a market basis for international exchange? The unfortunate collapse of the Soviets was brutal for the Russians, it would have been better if the reformed like China, but I'm happy to see that forcing capitalist restoration on them has backfired for the West. Now no rightwing regime sees them as a structural threat, so they have less and less reasons to side with the US.
It's a real tragedy that USSR was allowed to collapse when it did. Gorbachev and Yeltsin should've been executed as traitors, but the leadership just didn't have the confidence and here we are now.
lol, lmao
The irony is, that Krushtchev and his whole "exporting the revolution" really have fucked everything up imo. Now that there's no Soviet Union at all, there's not as much ideological warfare in the global South against Russian or Chinese influence, only pragmatic geopolitics.
What can anti-communist propaganda achieve against a capitalist nation and a nation that operates on a market basis for international exchange? The unfortunate collapse of the Soviets was brutal for the Russians, it would have been better if the reformed like China, but I'm happy to see that forcing capitalist restoration on them has backfired for the West. Now no rightwing regime sees them as a structural threat, so they have less and less reasons to side with the US.
At least that's my analysis.
It's a real tragedy that USSR was allowed to collapse when it did. Gorbachev and Yeltsin should've been executed as traitors, but the leadership just didn't have the confidence and here we are now.