Actually yeah, parallels there too. On paper, in 17th/18th c, Asian powers were more powerful than colonizers in economic terms. But Europe was ahead on 1-2 things that mattered. Russia is economically a non-entity now, but is ahead on 1-2 things that matter, like cyberwarfarehttps://twitter.com/MoJoe/status/1018973054226124800 …
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Russia seems to have found ways to work with it. It has become the biggest exporter of Wheat a year back.
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You know what would solve that? Immigration.
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Yup, but they too have their xenophobia problems
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Demographics is a medium term problem for Russia. In the immediate, their biggest problem is the global perception that anything Russian is tainted with top-down cleptocratic corruption. However, Russia has been relativizing their behavior with the aid of disgruntled Westerners.
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