The real question is how Putin will accept the demise of his empire, especially if he’s really dying? He faces an eternity of limbo or hell. Either way, does he care what condition he leaves civilization in?
looking at Putin’s actions now, and in the past - he doesn’t care what happens to Russia. until now he enriched himself and his buddies at the expense of ordinary Russians.
Russia has tons of mineral wealth but also it HAD human resources at high skill levels. Putin’s regime p*$$ed it away.
Now he looks like he just wants it all to burn
The Russian Federation is comprised of 22 republics. Each of those republics has some degree of autonomy, specific to an ethnic minority. However, they are precluded from international decisions, and those decisions are all made by Moscow.
This is a recipe for dismemberment.
Ethic groups, with their own, homogenous — and separate — “homeland,” who are denied the right to make their own decisions vis-a-vis the international order; and who are dominated by and ultimately controlled by an ethnic group not their own; will eventually break away. It is the natural order of things.