July 31, 2007
Rising Bear
Russia is on the move, and it's moving towards fascism. And not in the hyperbolic, Godwin's Law sense either. No, the honest-to-goodness state control of industry coupled with racist undertones, youth movements, and revisionist history.
It might be the brink of a new Cold War.
Russia is insane, though I'm not too worried about another cold war, given that Russia is dying, so unless they have some kind of serious baby-boom, there will hardly be any Russia left in 50 years..
Posted by: Josiah at July 31, 2007 9:31 AMYes, the population is indeed declining, as it is in most of Europe (Ireland and the UK being notable exceptions). But I'd say that things won't really reach crisis levels for another twenty years, right about the time children born today and in the past five years would normally enter the work-force. It might be less than that, depending on when their birth rate started shrinking, but they're going to be quite dangerous for at least a few more decades. But unlike 1930s Germany, 2000s Russia is a burgeoning fascist state that happens to supply a significant chunk of Europe's energy needs.
Posted by: ryan at July 31, 2007 12:35 PM