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The Future Brief – What’s After Putin? History Already Told Us

Russia’s next collapse: why the system can’t hold.

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Way Yuhl
Jun 02, 2025
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Russian history does not follow forward movement or evolution. Instead, it’s cyclical. Russian governments fail, reform, recentralize, fail - repeat. The problem now? Putin is trapped at the end of that cycle, with no path forward but implosion.

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