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He'd accidentally fall out of a window long before he'd have the chance.
Absolutely this. Their commitment to corruption would not tolerate a "good guy" whatever tf that actually means.
- Established Moscow as an international hub for commerce and industry
- Waged economical war with China to be the largest economy in Asia
- Buried the hatchet with Japan over the northern islands
- Created a direct competitor for BRICS (BICS) and tried to tie his own Asian coalition with the European Union.
- Rebooted the Russian space program to compete with NASA/SpaceX
Watching For All Mankind makes me feel bad for present-day Russians because even those Soviet Russians have it better.
Watching For All Mankind makes me feel bad for present-day Russians because even those Soviet Russians have it better.
I just started watching the series and I'm in season 2. I'm loving it so far, and couldn't agree more.
Try to establish a proper western-style liberal democratic system and culture in Russia. They have a constitution that is nominally liberal democratic, but they are so used to authoritarian rule that they can't really manage to keep it that way.
Scary is that in a few years the USA could have that exact description
Retired after 2 terms in office
Use the vast resources to invest in the country such as building green energy, public transportation, plant agriculture, housing, manufacturing and education to try to outcompete the other European nations in metrics such as the democracy index, human happiness index, corruption index.
Allow the regions to leave any time they want and if that does happen take it as a lesson for his leadership.
Cracked down on corruption and entered russia into the eu
Joining the EU? Would that have even been possible?
I mean, I think it would've been awesome to be able travel to Russia without a VISA and just start working there...
Could be done, it's a country in Europe. It reaches into Asia, but then again France reaches into South America and nobody complains.
EU isn't only about open borders. It's open market and lots more.
The smartest thing any leader could do at this point is educate the next generation.
He could have opened a lot of colleges and invited scholars from all over the world to come and learn for free.
Push the US, Europe and China to invest in asteroid mining and space colonization.
Russia has the highest rate of college attainment in the world, free college is one of the few legacies of the USSR that didn't get privatized and destroyed during liberalization.
Now about those space colonies...
The Soviet space program only got mostly privatized and destroyed. It's not easy to run a space program when your entire industrial base just had the copper stripped out of the walls.
It's actually a major accomplishment that they were able to contribute modules to the ISS in the 2000s.
I don't like the question because Putin being a good guy is unthinkable to me. Good guys aren't in Russian politics, or at least not for long. But let's say Russia had a halfway decent leadership where smart guys don't fall out of windows. With their vast landmass, resources and workforce, they could easily be the third largest economy in the world again instead of not even making it into the top ten on their way to fall behind Mexico.
Abdicate years ago instead of bending the laws that prevented him from ruling indefinitely
He would have united the globe, and then been isekai'd to another world where his only goal is to ride every creature in said world.
Resigned.
Have a look at Gorbachev. A big loss, that.
He could've sold all the nuclear warheads in exchange for goods which could be used as a foundation to get the ball rolling for the economic situation.
If he was a good guy he probably wouldn't have come to power in the first place.
Good Putin was able to shoot himself in the head like 30 times.
Last time Russia was a formidable power, it was part of the USSR.
Modern Russia is a capitalist state. The interests of the capitalist class and the interests of the working class are opposed. The capitalists wouldn't permit Putin to remain in power if he made Russia a better place for people, by supporting the people instead of his fellow billionaires.
The USSR was a formidable power because of vassal states also known as good old imperialism, something Putin desperately tries to replicate. The mindset of Russia's leaders today isn't so different from Soviet times.
If that was the relationship, the USSR's constitution wouldn't have permitted SSRs to leave with a simple referendum, nor would they have suffered so much after breakup of the USSR. Instead we see their housing and public infrastructure has been left to rot without the cooperation and relative effectiveness of the USSR's economic system.
We know what imperialism looks like. When the UK built infrastructure in India and Africa, it consisted of railways from the mines to the ports. The literacy rate in India under Britain never got above 12%. The USSR built trains connecting even remote villages and subway systems in any city >1 million. Most of the former USSR countries still have some of the highest rates of educational attainment in the world.
The USSR blurred the line. There was decentralized industry and multiculturalism, but also Russian supremacy, genocide, and military conquest.
There was very much the threat of violence in 1990 and 1991, even if the original USSR framework was very liberal. Not to mention the USSR-led coups in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
It's also important to note that the Russian SFSR itself was an empire ruled from Moscow before the revolution. That did not change much after the revolution.
Do you honestly believe the USSR honored it's constitution? There were referendums because the dictator at the time decided to allow it. If Putin or Stalin were in charge at the time, this wouldn't have happened just like the decades of suppression and exploitation prior. It's very disrespectful and somewhat unhinged to claim all those vassal states had a choice all along and wanted to be part of the soviet union just because they were granted the privilege in the very end when the regime lost it's grip anyway. The truth is Moscow couldn't hold them together for much longer. Most of those states would just revolt even more so than they already did anyway.
Because yes, of course they tried to free themselves in the past but didn't have the means to do so previously. Similarly, Russia's vassal states today have no choice, as all elections and referendums are only for show and all leaders are installed by the Kreml.
Long story short: Constitutions in autocracies are worth as little as the paper they're written on.