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Wow. You’d think the guy bending the world to his vision would lead the first or maybe second largest economy (in a weird situation) but I guess Putin’s a very humble guy and decided not to break the top 10.
To be fair, the whole Ukraine fiasco shows that GDP is not a very good measure of the strength of an economy.
Alright, alright, world bank says they’re the fourth largest by PPP which is still pretty modest for the guy personally bending the world to his will in my mind lmao
Putin really ought to bend these GDP numbers to his will, but I’ll cut him some slack. He’s got a lot going on now that he’s single-handedly responsible for controlling American foreign policy too.
I’d argue even PPP doesn’t paint the whole picture. Turns out what really matters is industrial strength and self sufficiency.
I don’t know how you all are able to read stuff like this.
I acknowledge that articles this like that have valuable bits and pieces in them. But this guy just goes full terminal great man theory in the first paragraph and I have to get up and walk around a bit after reading that.
It is painful no doubt, but I find the value in reading these articles isn’t in their analysis. They give a glimpse into the mindset of western elites and the policies they intend to pursue. Seeing how they view the world is important for understanding how they’re likely to act going forward.
They’re so mad that the war is ending. It’s very depraved stuff
it truly is
Cry harder, Atlantic. Russia offered a peace deal way earlier and the West didn’t want it.
Should be renamed “The Atlantis” and get sunk into the ocean.
Over the past 25 years, the world has bent to the vision of one man. In the course of a generation, he not only short-circuited the transition to democracy in his own country, and in neighboring countries, but set in motion a chain of events that has shattered the transatlantic order that prevailed after World War II. In the global turn against democracy, he has played, at times, the role of figurehead, impish provocateur, and field marshal. We are living in the Age of Vladimir Putin.
What this ridiculous “great man theory” style analysis tells me is that even in decline, they refuse to take responsibility for anything. They tried to have total control over Russia and couldn’t, tried to encroach on it and overextended in the effort, and now they’re acting like it was a grand game of chess they were outplayed on instead of the material conditions on the ground. Infantile reductionist framing of complicated factors involving many countries.
The great man theory shit is especially insane here because Putin was literally allowed into power by Russian and western oligarchs as a compromise to the Russian people to prevent communism from coming back. Its actually hard to even imagine a more clear example of important people being a result of their societies and conditions rather than the other way around.
That’s a great point.
Have any good articles on this? My knowledge of that period of Russian history is pretty spotty.
They didn’t even try though, yeltsin asked to try NATO and 90s Russia was ripe for western investment (exploitation)
The west could have integrated Russia into the capitalist world order, but instead made it clear that cold war sentiments were going to stay
Well, maybe my understanding of it is off in some way, but what I meant by “total control” is they did not want to be partners with Russia (rejecting them joining NATO) but only to subjugate them (dissolve USSR, make them subservient to western interests) and this backfired on them.
is this glazing part of wooing russia?
What a bunch of loser crybabies. I have a better title for this: “We fucked around and found out.”
Don’t really know why I pay attention to western media still. They may sprinkle in a bit of truth here and there but on the whole, it’s completely dishonest.
Polish media currently alternate between “Ukraine is winning” and “Putin will invade us tomorrow”.
