“Russia is experiencing the most chaotic period in its history!”
That is some serious chaos. It’s more chaotic now than it was in the time around the Bolshevik Revolution? More chaotic than the fall of the Soviet Union? Maybe it is, but it’s possible that the writer is engaging in a bit of hyperbole.
I am of the opinion that the “burner under the boiling pot” is the attempt to supplant the American dollar with the BRICS model. In essence, it is a war as a proxy for the fighting between central bank systems. So far, BRICS is loosing.
The push into Ukraine was supposed to happen quickly with the collapse of Ukraine and integration of the Crimean oil fields into Russia’s economy. That did not happen and now Russia is in an even worse economic position.
The China gambit was to tie American hands by having a oil flow through Russia, make American dependent so that when China attacks Taiwan, America can be sidelined.
Again, that has also not happened. Now Russia is stuck in a logistics war that they can easily win nor withdraw from.
How does the curse go “may you live in interesting times”
> It’s more chaotic now than it was in the time around the Bolshevik Revolution? <
You beat me to it. The article reads like it was translated from some other language into English.
The chaos Russia is experiencing right now seems rather tame compared to the Смутное время (Time of Troubles) from 1598-1613, a period of foreign invasion, famine, coups and revolutions that killed a goodly portion of Russia’s population. Russia also bore the brunt of the Mongol invasion of Europe in the 1230’s, during which the Mongols razed many of Russia’s cities and put their populations to the sword. Other chaotic periods would include the Swedish invasion during the Great Northern War, Napoleon’s invasion, and the Stalinist purges of 1929-1953.
“more chaotic now than it was in the time around the Bolshevik Revolution?”
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“More chaotic than the fall of the Soviet Union?”
Could be more chaotic than the Revolutions of 1989 and the Fall of the Soviet Union.