Disintegration Of Russian Federation After Loss In Ukraine ‘Defeat For Putin’s Empire’ But Not ‘End Of Russia’
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s observation that “Russia can be an empire or it can be a democracy but it can’t be both at the same time” remains true to this day and should be the basis for judging all plans to transform Putin’s Russian Federation into something better, Aaron Lea and Borukh Tashkin say.
The two Russian commentators make that the starting point in their review of five recent articles about Russia’s future, articles containing arguments that in all except one case fail to recognize that reality (moscowtimes.ru/2025/05/10/rossiya-vmesto-putina-raspad-dezintegratsiya-protektorati-alyansi-konfederatsii-a163021).


