The Soviet Union with its vaster empire spent itself into disintegration with its high military budget. Putin says, "Hold my beer" as he plans to continue accelerating his unbalanced and staggering economy into the future.
That's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see if if pays off:
Russia's war machine has become such an integral part of its economic engine that its military industry is likely to keep expanding even after the fighting in Ukraine ends, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
High military spending crippled the Soviet Union. Even if Russia is less effed up with paranoid nationalists rather than paranoid communists, repeating the Soviet military spending spree is no way to make Russia great again. And making plans to take on NATO on the assumption that Russia will finally overwhelm Ukraine is turning the Delusion Dial to 11, no?
But on the bright side, Putin might get that red sports car blue water fleet he's been eying!
The irony of Putin basing his rule on restoring Russia's past imperial glory only to risk a third fragmentation of Russia's empire after the Soviet empire lost Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991 is thick and delicious.
China may pick up some lost territory in the collapse.
NOTE: TDR Winter War of 2022 coverage continues here.
NOTE: You may also like to read my posts on Substack, at The Dignified Rant: Evolved. Go ahead and subscribe to it. You know you want to.
NOTE: I made the image with Bing.
