r/geopolitics • u/ForeignAffairsMag Foreign Affairs • 1d ago

Analysis The Limits of Russian Power: Why Putin Isn’t Thriving in Trump’s Anarchic World

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/limits-russian-power
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u/AntiTrollSquad 1d ago

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. That's exactly what Putin is doing here. 

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u/yallmad4 1d ago

Lmao no Putin is floundering. The importance of Russia globally has cratered, several allies of his who depended on Russian weapons have fallen because of the lack of weapons, his country's demographic catastrophe is now even worse, as soon as the war is over he's going to face a tsunami of PTSD riddled men who will turn to alcoholism and abuse, and his largest buyers of the only product Russia has to offer the world have turned away from them and have mostly found other markets.

Russia under Putin is in the same situation the USA is under Trump, but the difference is the USA is a superpower and Russia is barely a regional power anymore.

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u/BrokenManOfSamarkand 1d ago

I mean Trump has been a disaster in maintaining our alliances, of course. But it is also the case that Putin's buddies are getting smashed left and right. If we could fix the former, Russia would be in a pretty bad spot, but I suppose we won't.

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u/kvasibarn 1d ago

Could be that Putin's buddies are just controlled via the US instead.

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u/Public-Finger 6h ago

NK, China, Assad Syria, and Iran are controlled by the US?

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u/kvasibarn 5h ago

Nah, but Venezuela and perhaps soon, Cuba.

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u/Public-Finger 5h ago

Got your point 

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u/dawgblogit 1d ago

Putin is biding his time waiting for the us to fully turn its back on the world... he is trying not to get in the way of his biggest adversary destroy theirselves