cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45454904
Mounting economic hardship and growing public discontent could push Russia toward internal conflict, a senior Kremlin official has warned.
The stark message comes as inflation, war fatigue, and social divisions deepen across the country.
Alexander Kharichev, head of the Presidential Directorate for Monitoring and Analysing Social Processes, issued the warning in a state-run journal.
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Military over social spending
Rising prices have hit ordinary Russians hard, with food costs climbing well above the national inflation rate. Businesses are struggling to stay afloat, and layoffs and bankruptcies loom large.
Despite the pressure, the Kremlin continues to prioritize military spending over social welfare.
At the same time, Russia’s workforce has been decimated by more than a million war casualties, mostly men of working age, worsening the long-term demographic decline and ageing population.
[…]
Kharichev warned of “fragmentation of society” and the “loss of Russia’s ability to fight for its survival.”
His analysis cited the growing erosion of public trust in government and widening rifts within Russian society.
[…]
Hooray!
I’ve been hearing this for 2 years. How’s Putin’s cancer doing, by the way?
it was, and remains, a real consequential threat of Putin’s course of action. but these things are rarely quick, until they begin.
if russia is going to civil war, thier troll farms will be silent on social media for a while, thats a good thing.
So it’s a race, is it? USA! USA! USA!
Wouldn’t it be great if all the empires collapsed and everybody just like, learned their lesson?
literally everyone when an empire collapses:
hahaha
omg what a happy world if both the US and Russia balkanized.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, AP, Express
This article is made and published by Jens Asbjørn Bogen, who may have used AI in the preparation
haha okayyyyy
Rising prices have hit ordinary Russians hard, with food costs climbing well above the national inflation rate. Businesses are struggling to stay afloat, and layoffs and bankruptcies loom large.
Despite the pressure, the Kremlin continues to prioritize military spending over social welfare.
Seems familiar
His analysis cited the growing erosion of public trust in government and widening rifts within
RussianAmerican society.FTFY
Maybe you can show me how and lead by example?
Just stop trying to make everything be about the US, for god’s sake.
I kinda doubt that the CCP will allow Russia to collapse before the USA. Like a world power balancing act.
I think China would buy Russian territory at rock bottom prices, or simply seize it. It would be far easier way to achieve glory and wealth than trying to take Taiwan.
Probably, but those aren’t the reasons they want Taiwan which is more of an ideological goal.
The answer: “Both”.
The problem with Taiwan for China is that it is a risky bet. Undoubtedly it would be proof of having the Mandate of Heaven if successfully taken, but also evidence of not being worthy if it results in failure. Biting off haunches of a weakened Russia is a much less risky proposition, with an good payoff.
That guy better stay on the ground floor for the rest of his life. Anything higher up than oh say about 30 feet gets so darn slippery this time of year in Moscow that you just wouldn’t believe it.
And stay away from tea too. And silenced handguns aimed at the back of the head. Just so many accidental ways people are dying nowadays
I recently heard Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian political dissident, give a talk. He survived two attempted poisonings among other things. He described how the current method of poisoning is for Putin’s henchmen to sneak into your home and put polonium into your underwear. So this guy might want to consider walking around naked for a while as well…
I hear the Polonium is lovely this time of year…
What’s incredible is this wouldn’t be the first time Russia has spent such an insane amount of money on a futile war they absolutely collapse.
Collapsing is a proud Russian tradition. And now the US gets to do it with them!
We couldn’t afford the Vietnam war. The Nixon Shock sealed our fate - it’s just been very gradual.
Iraq cost ~3x what Vietnam did. But I’m not really disagreeing.
As soon as it became clear how much russia botched the invasion initially, I’ve thought of vovka as Tsar Nicolas III
Be careful what you wish for. We might end up with Soviet Union Two: Electric Boogaloo.
Maybe this time they won’t dismantle the worker’s councils after the revolution, that’d be nice.
We’ll get Stalin 2.0.
or maybe Trotsky 2.0
As in, an improvement on the original (fewer famines) model? Or an upgraded, more effective (bigger famines) model?
2040: A group of Neo-Bolsheviks seize control of Russia, fully intending to literally make fully automated luxury gay space communism real. Imagine a publicly owned vast automated supply chain that produced goods at scale with little human effort. Go full tilt on automation of all kinds, but direct all profits to the general welfare. Maybe do away with money entirely. It would start with a genuine utopian dream.
2060: Neo-Stalin rules over what was once Russia. Its human population, long since more trouble than they were worth, were largely done away with. The population of the country is approximately 2300. Yet the combined industrial output of the automated leviathan that sprawls over what was once the Moscow-St. Petersburg corridor now exceeds that of the PRC. And a frightening fraction of that is directed towards military purposes. Their population reduced to a handful of oligarchs still controls the first, second, or third most powerful military in the world, depending on form of measure.
Maybe they’ll get it right this time and will be more resilient to capitalist interference.
Yeah… That was the problem…
Incoming headline:
senior Kremlin official dies of suicide after shooting himself in the back of the head 3 times after falling out of 10th floor window.
It’s especially impressive that he mananged to do that with his hands tied behind his back. Some people are just determined I guess.
injuries consistent of a 10story fall, from a 2-story building. or fell off a boat or plane. or the PLANE exploded.
Stuffed inside of a bag he put himself in.
Cause of death: ricin poisoning
putin stopped using it, its defenestration or novichik posioning.
Russia is a colonial abomination that shoud not exist, so that’s pretty decent news.
It’s not so much a nation as it is a very large swath of land nobody wants to live in, controlled by a somewhat organized crime syndicate who gained control of some production and defense capabilities like petroleum and nuclear weapons.
Calling them “colonial” almost makes it seem more systematic and organized than what it is, it’s kleptocracy and they are trying to steal land with resources from targets of opportunity.
Considering Putin used a colonial war in Chechnya to consolidate power, it very much is a colonial state.
Don’t you mean “imperial”? I take “colonial” to mean that it would itself be a colony.
I’d say both, colonialism is sort of a subtype of imperialism where the conquered territories get settled by the ruling people. Russia has engaged in this for a long time.
It won’t be great news after the civil war ends up being between fascist and fascister.
In Russia this is called “Tuesday”.
I really wish there was a setting to hide images automatically.
I’ll believe it even I see it, just like any Trump news.
Yeah, with Putin’s approval at 80% it’s hard to see a civil war happening any time soon.
Sometimes things go out with a bang. There’s a good chance that Putin’s regime also survives it with only some regions falling out with it first.
Seriously. Russia was supposed to collapse in 2023. Then in 2024. Then in 2025. Putin was sick and he was about to die. Endless supply of hopium. At this point I consider it all fake news until proven otherwise. Also there was the recent Money & Macro economic analysis that contradicts a lot of the hopium theories. And there’s the whole contradiction between impending economic collapse and lauching war on NATO countries. The two are mutually exclusive.
Yep. History curves to justice my ass.
We didn’t start the fire, we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it. And fucking failed the open book test each time.
Well, that took long enough. The Russian people should be in revolt.
“Ivan, pull the lever to lower the price of vodka a leetle bit more, the peasants need to be pacified.”
“But, Gregor, we are the peasants!”
Rethinking my EU5-related life choices right now
