Posted on Apr 2, 2025
I know nothing about geopolitics; why should I write about this stuff? But I cannot help it.
I live in Italy; I cannot remember to have ever purchased something Made in the Commonwealth of Independent States. More or less, the cis was supposed to be, for the peoples of the ex-ussr, what the European Union was for the peoples of Western Europe; it was meant to push economies development and betterment of living standards; one could say that it was meant to be the continuation of Russia’s empire, but that is, in some way, the same; without development empires crumble.
So what did the cis do for its peoples? What was it able to create? What is new, not an inheritance from the ussr? (I mean: not the space program; that was created by the ussr.)
One could say that: if in the past those peoples lived no big improvement of living standards, it is because there was communism. But communism has been gone for awhile now. Did the peoples improve their lives because of trading with Russia, or because of trading with western nations?
Are Russians starting to realise that it is not someone else’s fault? And they react by doing the only thing they can do to escape reality, which is: destroy something?