0x815Russia making cadets out of children kidnapped from Ukraine: report
Muskovy needs to get the Japan/Germany treatment - entirely demilitarized and culturally rewritten from the ground up over three consecutive generations until they’re more associated with absolute pacifism a Muskovite version of anime than anything else. The rest of the RF needs to be culturally rewritten until they don’t even remember what the word “Russian” means other than synonymous with “Nazi”.
Unfortunately that’s not really in the cards anymore thanks to nuclear weapons, which have made conventional invasions of nuclear-armed states a dicey proposition, to put it mildly.
Unfucking Russia is likely impossible at this point, at least in time scales less than 100 years. They’ve been brutally violent imperialists for centuries now, and their mentality and public institutions are so fantastically fucked up that fixing them would require a “cold reboot” of a huge chunk of their culture, like you noted, and without popular support inside Russia that’s just never going to happen.
While true as far as military intervention goes, I’m cautiously optimistic about Peter Zeihan’s predictions that its current demographic freefall will help take away their ability to actually man, operate and maintain those systems.
FreeBooteR69North Korea has been in free fall for decades, yet they are still the same fucked up gangster state. They don't give a fuck about their population and see them as property to be used up by the state. Until somebody teaches the population how to resist and replace their form of government, nothing will change. The only thing we can do about these states is to isolate them. Anyone who gives them succor should suffer the same isolation.
Isn’t their country propped up by Russia and China though?