They may. I would certainly hope not.
I am hopeful that those separate economies will flourish in the same manor as the Russian one would.
We were on the subject of the Russian nation, so I didn’t touch on the Eastern Block nations, or the break-away nations.
Russia’s best bet, is to become a real player in the Western economy. Trade with the old former Eastern block nations, the break-away nations.
Get a great shared economy going and put the past behind them all.
Tourism between these nations could be robust.
What’s your take on it, knowing more about the region than I do?
I’m pessimistic about the Russians ever becoming “westernized” They’re different, they always have been and they always will be. They have a huge inferiority complex combined with a swagger rarely seen outside of TX. (think Putin on the horse with his shirt off.) They’re rude, nasty and, more importantly, thoroughly corrupt.
I’m obviously biased as the Poles truly hate Russians. Poland should blow up that abomination of a building in Warsaw (The palace of Science and Culture) which was a “gift” from Stalin and Russian people in the ‘50s. google it, it’s a godawful building. I saw it in 2010.
The Western Allies should have kept going eastward in 1945 and cleaned house in Moscow. It would have spared millions the suffering they endured from 1945 until the USSR collapsed.