A couple of articles on the “putler’s finished” theme :

David Piguet

International Relations Senior, Stabilization & Peacekeeping

French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr – Coëtquidan Доброво́льчий Украї́нський Ко́рпус «Пра́вий се́ктор» (ДУК ПС)

Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

Jan 8, 2026

RUSSIA IS LOSING THE PRESENT — AND THE FUTURE
The collapse of Russia is no longer a hypothesis. It is a process already underway.

Strategically.
Militarily.
Economically.
Demographically.

And it is accelerating.

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STRATEGIC FAILURE: THE END OF THE IMPERIAL ILLUSION

What Moscow presented as a “special military operation” has become:

• a multi-year strategic disaster
• a failure to achieve any political objective
• a catalyst for NATO expansion and European rearmament

Russia did not divide the West.
Russia re-unified it.

That alone marks the end of any serious claim to strategic mastery.

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MILITARY REALITY: DEFEATED BY ADAPTATION

Russia is not losing to NATO.
Russia is losing to Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have achieved something unprecedented:

• they created the Drone Revolution under live combat conditions
• they neutralized tanks, fleets, air power, logistics, command chains
• they forced every modern army to rethink warfare

Ukraine is now the most combat-adaptive force in the world.

Russia’s army — rigid, centralized, doctrinally frozen — cannot keep pace.

In modern war, adaptation is survival.
Russia is failing that test.

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ECONOMY: A WAR STATE WITH NO EXIT

Russia’s economy is no longer growing.
It is consuming itself.

• sanctions are structural and long-term
• technology access is collapsing
• capital flight is irreversible
• youth and talent are gone

Its last lifeline — the shadow oil tanker fleet — is now being interdicted and boarded.

A power that must smuggle its own exports is not sovereign.
It is economically besieged.

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DEMOGRAPHY: THE SILENT COLLAPSE

No propaganda can reverse this:

• hundreds of thousands dead or permanently wounded
• entire regions drained to feed the war
• birth rates collapsing
• educated generations emigrating

Empires do not fall when they lose territory.
They fall when they lose people.

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ONE REAL SUPERPOWER

There is only one global superpower today:

🇺🇸 The United States of America

Not through conquest — but through:

• technological leadership
• alliance systems
• economic depth
• strategic adaptability

Russia is not a superpower.
At best, it is a declining regional power with nuclear weapons and no future vision.

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DUDAYEV WAS RIGHT

More than 30 years ago, Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Chechen leader assassinated by Russia, warned the world:

“While Russism (the ideology of Russian domination) exists, it will never give up its ambitions. Ukraine will have to face Russia, and the conflict will not end well for Moscow.”

Ukraine is now the frontline where that collapse is unfolding.

History is not turning back.

Russia is losing the present — and forfeiting the future.

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HistoryInTheMaking

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Marijn Markus

AI Lead | Managing Data Scientist | Public Speaker

Universiteit Utrecht  Capgemini

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands 

10 reasons nobody is scared of Putin anymore:
1️⃣ The Soviet “imperial revival” is dєad, buried in #Ukraine
2️⃣ The 3-day war became a 4-year humiliation with 1.2 million sustained casualтіes
3️⃣ Russian weapons and #military once feared, now just noisy bang bangs
4️⃣ Red lines crossed weekly, nothing happens
5️⃣ Russia now b0mbed weekly by Ukraine
6️⃣ Friends quietly backing away or lost
7️⃣ Sanctions biting, economy blєєding
8️⃣ Black Sea dominance gone
9️⃣ Countries literally seizing Russian ships
🔟 Power now = nukes + bluff, nothing else.

In just 4 years, he’s lost all influence in Syria and Venezuela, with Iran to follow. Had over a million Russians кilled or wouпded in idiotic assaults that achieved nothing and brought his #economy on the brink of implosion

📉 If one wants to change the world order, start with the Russian federation, break it and give back the autonomy all the states the russian colonial empire has annexed.

Thank Putin for his disastrous foreign #policy which is just about to get worse.