frightening ? why ?
one for sure, Moscow empire is getting closer and closer to
1917N2
Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.
foreignpolicy.com
The unraveling of a fragile multiethnic state could lead to more violence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
There is a rich history of state collapse following wars, revolutions, system breakdowns, economic crises, and other epochal events. Napoleon’s empire collapsed after his disastrous march on Moscow and subsequent defeat at the Battle of Leipzig. In 1918, the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian empires all collapsed in military defeat. Of course, people, decisions, and policies played a role, but ultimately it was war and the attendant economic and social crises that pushed these states over the edge into political chaos and often violence...
e, would a likely Moscow collapse be destabilizing and violent, perhaps including civil war? Historian Marlene Laruelle, the director of the Institute for European, Moscow, and Eurasian studies at George Washington University,
thinks so. “A collapse would generate several civil wars,” she said, as “new statelets would fight with one another over borders and economic assets.” Meanwhile, Moscow elites “would react with violence to any secessionism.”