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Indeed, it's the "real new Ottoman Empire" in its death throes.

Just like the Ottomans entered WW1 for the sole reason "of keeping itself relevant," with nothing to show for it except opportunistic ideas, Russia will similarly crushed, and dismembered as a country now.

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Yes, but I'm a bit cross, unlike the Ottomans back then the Russians have nukes, which may ruin my own comfortable and painless fading into oblivion as a German, on my Ottoman in my backyard garden.

> Russia will similarly crushed, and dismembered as a country now.

I hope not - and I don' think that anyone wants that.

I think it's clear that Putin is not fit lead any more and the apparatus that he has built is corrupt and disfunctional.

I don't want Russia crushed and dismembered. I'd like a stable, happy, healthy Russia with new, non-paranoid leadership, and Putin living in a small dacha somewhere.

They are mostly doing it to themselves. People don't want to start businesses and families in a country with a mafia government that can take away or destroy what they have built at any time.

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