Propping up the regime of the woefully inept Boris Yeltsin was a critical error that led to chaos and created perfect conditions for “goats” to prosper.
But workarounds, such as Russia’s “shadow fleet” of uninsured oil tankers, are expensively inefficient.Reorienting Russia’s economy to Chinese technology will take years. Pulling apart Western-made products for components couldn’t stop the USSR collapsing.that Russia’s increasingly “primitive and backward” economy would “follow the Soviet Union’s path to the complete economic implosion of the late 1980s”.
With Russian male life expectancy falling to 64, below even North Korea, Russian women outnumber men by 10 million. COVID-19 worsened this entrenched problem, with male “deaths of despair” from alcohol and drug abuse jumping significantly. A fierce critic of Putin’s kleptocratic patronage machine, Navalny writes: “I can’t stand the goat, but I hate those who let it get the cabbage.” From inside solitary confinement, Navalny frets Russians will blow their next chance when it comes.Another Russian politician blames NATO, but not like Putin does. In 2019, the now jailed Vladimir Kara-Murza said NATO’s failure to respond to Boris Yeltsin’s letter suggesting Russia join its ranks someday marked a missed opportunity.
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