Thread by @Tr0llyTr0llFace

Next Tuesday will mark the 83rd anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, where Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia formed an alliance to each occupy its respective half of Europe.
2 years later Germany broke the pact, which is why Russia is still mad at Nazis - for betraying them.

Russia is the last colonial empire on earth, which started dislocating in 1990. It might have held on for a few more decades if not for #Pedoputin gloriously misreading the room & attacking Ukraine with his rag tag army of alcoholic rapists with wooden teeth & 50 year old tanks.

Russia might have managed to hold up its empire if not for comical levels of mismanagement, trying to apply the principles of communism. They really tried. But the impotence of central planning coupled with depriving people of private initiative led to a collapse of everything.

Post-1990, Russia held on to some of its colonies, its UN permanent member seat, a deep-rooted police state apparatus and a gigantic stockpile of weapons they couldn’t maintain. Their nuclear warheads are famous for housing families of raccoons who enjoy the warm glow of uranium.

In a last ditch effort to posture, Russia tried to invade Chechnya in the 1990s, a nation 1/100th its size, and managed to lose the war. It went subsequently bankrupt, and was saved by the Paris Club of Western countries who didn’t want to see it sink into even deeper chaos.

For a brief period in time, Russia managed to reverse the slide thanks to the Germans to taught it how to extract gas and set up the infrastructure to sell it to Western Europe at rock bottom prices. In exchange, Russia bought German technology it wasn’t able to produce itself.

Due to soaring energy prices, the regime of #Pedoputin enjoyed a windfall, most of which they stole, and used what was left to built a Potemkin economy where foreign-built factories assembled foreign-built parts using foreign-designed processes into products “made in Russia”.

The dream of Russian “elites” was always to steal enough to be able to afford to run away to civilised Europe where they could enjoy being treated as actual human beings and a developed world infrastructure that actually works.

Due to sanctions, Russia can no longer import foreign-made parts to assemble in their foreign-built factories using foreign-designed processes. As stockpiles of those parts are running out, the Potemkin economy is crumbling faster than the communist economy 30 years ago.

Faced with unavoidable military defeat, a collapsing economy, and a ruling class overwhelmed with sheer panic, #Pedoputin is pandering to Iran and North Korea, after their “strategic ally” China said “thanks but no thanks, you drown on your own buddy lol”.

The West simply waits for Russia to completely collapse, while giving it some pity attention as Russia postures and threatens and begs for help while sinking into a pool of shit and chaos.