Title, basically.

  • SirMarxALot
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    2 years ago

    If things keep going in Ukraine as they’ve been and Russia comes out with the massive strategic victory that I think they will, Putin will be incredibly popular within Russia. Russia will be loaded from massive oil revenues from the price spikes and be looked up to by the anti imperialist world. Basically whatever he says goes at that point. I don’t know the guy, but it doesn’t seem like he’s a hardcore capitalist nor very a big fan of what the USSR was when he grew up. Seems like he just values Russian sovereignty and stability. Imo he’ll probably stay de facto leader for a long time, and if the CPRF gets enough popular support to take majority power in the duma, he might back them for stability’s sake. Idk if that would lead to a DOTP or something more like Bolivia and Venezuela with their socialist parties having power in a bourgeois state, but that’s a possibility. Kind of a remote one at that, though.

    Much more likely though is United Russia stays the dominant party and the same sort of state capitalism remains. I honestly think Russia will be one of the last states to have a revolution simply because I figure they’ll be in such a stable and powerful position at the end of this war.

    • holdengreen
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      2 years ago

      In the long term Russia may feel pressure from the dominant world order led by China to reform itself.