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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The war will likely “end” in a stalemate with Russia retaining de facto control of at least some of Ukraine. When Putin dies, it’s likely he’ll be replaced by another ant-west authoritarian. After a couple of decades of “proud” stagnation, the next generation will demand lifestyles closer to what they see in the West and the hardliners will allow a puppet reformer to be “elected” to throw them a bone.

After that point, things could go either way. After a taste of of Western lifestyle kids could demand more, leading to more West-friendly reform. Or reactionaries could replace the puppet with another authoritarian to lock things down again. [/quote]

Russia already had a taste of Western lifestyle, Soviet Union fell apart 30 years ago.   The country opened up and western companies opened their outlets there, Russians started travelling the world and not on budget either.  When we travelled to Spain we learned that a lot of RE in the popular beach towns is owned by Russians, it was actually crazy to see some of their culture penetrate there, one of the towns in coastal Spain had some sort of Russian dance school do a concert for the tourists.

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I dunno why you think it's crazy.  It's pretty common that cultural institutions follow the diaspora communities.  I'm pretty plugged into the Russian-speaking community in the DMV area and they've built a rather sophisticated environment with several language weekend schools, a private K-3 school, Russian-language art, theatre, ballet, gymnastics, figure skating, chess, math clubs etc.  I imagine it's the same in any European country with a strong diaspora interested in preserving their culture and language.[/quote]

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