It is widely believed that contemporary Russia’s decline started right after the annexation of Crimea, when, in the course of less than one week, the Kremlin almost irreversibly predetermined the future of the entire nation. By acting as an aggressor—breaking international law, bilateral and multilateral agreements, and the general rules of conduct of post–Cold War Europe—Russia has embarked on a path leading to economic decay and international isolation, which potentially threaten to ruin Russia as a state.
There is no need to argue that Russia is a state in decline today, but I believe it is necessary to highlight that its course was, to some extent, predetermined even before the annexation of Crimea. The Russian economy, which had grown impressively throughout the 2000s, was hit quite hard during the 2008–2009 crises. Even if there had been no war in Ukraine, sanctions or low oil prices, Russia would be facing a systemic economic crisis. The existing model of state capitalism that lives off of commodities exports — redistributing revenues among the population and stimulating consumer spending to catalyze business activities — exhausted its potential for growth in 2013. The economic crisis and the government’s inability to deliver the same level of satisfaction among the population drives the Kremlin to pursue foreign military adventures, increase its indoctrination campaign via state propaganda, and launch limited witch hunts for the “enemy within” and abroad. All of these factors that began before the annexation increased drastically due to ongoing wars in Syria and Ukraine, and resulted in what could best be described as a management downturn with no sound plan of action.
I supported the annexation of Crimea because it is majority Russian.
Mason Cook
It's difficult to know what to make of this delusion. How is NATO going to make Moscow a protectorate when it can't even hold Paris or California?
Kayden Gomez
no future
Liam Anderson
It's funny how all these fags think that there is a real division between the US and Russia. It's the same thing with Iran, where Jews reign since at least 1000 years… Go on, choose a side, your treasuries will be emptied anyway.
Gavin Barnes
Caucasia wouldn't work out. Too diverse. Numerous small ethnic groups without unity. Siberia and most of the western states wouldn't work because all the major population centers and important areas are ethnic-Russian with sparsely populated non-Russians populating a virtually empty wilderness. There are basically no Finns in Karalia. No, seriously. Look it up. Common misconception on Zig Forums. Kaliningrad is ethnic-Russian majority. By a lot. Germans are less than 1% of the population. Giving it to Germany would make as much sense as forking it over to Ireland or Portugal. Even giving it to Lithuania or Poland would make more sense because at least it's geographically connected.
Asher Martinez
Yes there is, because the Russian economy is growing again. kys shill.
Butthurt ukrop shill detected. You do realize that Russia annexed part of Georgia years before and the world did nothing, right? But keep putting your hope in the West, they only see your land as a great location for migrant workers from Africa to come and do farm labor, and your women as whores. Pathetic.
Liam Gutierrez
Will you support the annexation of USA because it is majority Mexican?
Another Thread And nobody cares, including the mods. This isn’t your blog for russian political discussion, stop making these threads you potatobrain dead nigger. Sage and reported
Oliver Bennett
German Königsberg? That's not possible anymore. Splitting Kaliningrad Oblast' between Lithuania and Poland is a little less Impossible, but actually the only real solution is a small autonomous Russian State of Kaliningrad. The name might be then changed to Kenigsberg, Korolgrad or Krolgrad (literally Kingstown) because some of modern Kaliningrad's citizens are somewhat like modern Gdańsk citizens who like the tradition of "Free City".
then you must also support the annexation of the south east by mexico since it is or soon will be majority mexican? this whole majority thing is a SJW argument and you expose yourselves every time by using it. although it has to be said that ukraine has less claim to crimea than russia, as it was handed over to them by the communists some time after ww2.
Zachary Gutierrez
OP is such a douchebag. Crimea is and always has been a part of Russia regardless of what Nikita Kruschev or any NATO general may have babbled in a drunken stupor. Leo Tolstoy the great writer was an officer in the Crimean War, one of the more preposterous adventures of the British Empire. Imagine fighting a war to prop up the collapsing Ottoman Empire.
Brandon Miller
No choice. Fight or die. Might makes right.
Jaxon Jones
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Tyler Fisher
Siberians are not your regular russians, siberia is like texas in many ways.
