So Russia is hopelessly doomed, yet they have Europe dependent on their gas and the rest of the world dependent on their wheat exports? Didn’t you say earlier in the article they have a lack of arable soil? They seem to have a whole bunch of very talented hackers. They have resources. Russia does not “need” to expand to survive. Putin used to be intelligent, but I think he might be losing it. and like many school shooters in the US, when they go down, they are determined to take as many people as fucking possible with them. he threatened he would do it, but people were surprised when he invaded Ukraine. People were surprised when Trump was elected they said it could never happen. I think it’s more likely than other people do that he will use his nuclear arsenal.