I posted it because I found it interesting and it was new to me, but I'm skeptical of how influential this is too. This stuff is perhaps the Russian analogue of American think tank outputs like the old Project for the New American Century that received so much press back in the 2000s -- stuff that feeds into the thought processes of certain factions of the state apparatus. In the end the agenda is probably to make money for the oligarchs, much like the US.
In any case if Russia did actually succeed in the first parts of this agenda the beneficiary would be China, which is vastly more powerful, and it would become a Chinese world with Russia as a vassal state. Russia's economy is smaller than Italy and less than half the size of California, its demographics are terrible, and its military is old junk. Who wants to bet on whether their nukes would actually work? Those things require upkeep.
Of course on the flip side -- a formerly proud global superpower fallen on hard times is exactly the kind of place where delusional nonsense gets a foothold. You'll see it in the USA if we actually undergo a partial collapse. You'll see all kinds of crackpot insanity being taken seriously... more than you see now. "How did we get our first Scientologist president?" "Well, after the dollar collapsed..."
In any case if Russia did actually succeed in the first parts of this agenda the beneficiary would be China, which is vastly more powerful, and it would become a Chinese world with Russia as a vassal state. Russia's economy is smaller than Italy and less than half the size of California, its demographics are terrible, and its military is old junk. Who wants to bet on whether their nukes would actually work? Those things require upkeep.
Of course on the flip side -- a formerly proud global superpower fallen on hard times is exactly the kind of place where delusional nonsense gets a foothold. You'll see it in the USA if we actually undergo a partial collapse. You'll see all kinds of crackpot insanity being taken seriously... more than you see now. "How did we get our first Scientologist president?" "Well, after the dollar collapsed..."