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When you can’t admit that undermining the USSR was a mistake, but you also don’t want to address the consequences (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And yet, amid the breakdown that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union but lasted well beyond 1991, Putin consolidated a new autocracy. This fusion of fragility and path dependence derives from many factors that are not easily rewired: geography, a national-imperial identity, an ingrained strategic culture.

"Caused by many, many factors, but NOT Yeltsin's coup and the Neoliberal ravaging of the country that followed. Definitely not!"