Russia’s “collapse” won’t look like a clean breakup — it will look like a state that stops working.
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When people picture Russia’s worst-case scenario, they imagine a neat breakup into new states, like the USSR. In this video, I argue the darker outcome is messier: Russia remains “officially” intact, but the center stops functioning — salaries go unpaid, regions improvise, violence becomes a service, and new local bosses compete for money and force. I walk through how autocracies shred talent, why a Smuta-style collapse is more likely than a clean divorce, who rises first when Moscow weakens, what daily life looks like when institutions fail, and what kind of outside “rescue” may arrive — with strings attached. Then we end with the hard question: what rules and institutions would actually make a future Russia governable.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Russia’s Worst Case Scenario
02:32 The Talent Shredder
8:08 The Smuta Trap
11:52 New Bosses Rise
15:07 Life Without Center
19:05 The Violence Market
22:30 The Rescue with Strings
25:45 Rules That Heal
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