Instead of one Russia - already five: is it worth waiting for the collapse of Putin's empire because of the war
The collapse of Russia will not be real, which can happen - it is not the collapse of Russia, but a distance to varying degrees and for different reasons of different regions of the Russian Federation from Moscow as a single center, as a marker of identity of Putin Russia. Already, it is a tremendous hidden political problem of "eternal" Russia (the only center, not "uninhabited Russia").
During the wars and historical crises, the main and only center of Russia, despite its power, does not cope with both external blows and internal problems. The territories of tsarist and Soviet Russia begin to instinctively move away from the political center-Moscow. Sometimes the authorities managed to cope with this problem. Yes, Peter the first moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Instead, Nicholas the Second during the catastrophic World War I made a mistake - he only changed the name of the capital of the Russian Empire to Petrograd, preferring to expect at the end of tsarist Russia and his own death. Having seized power in 1917, the Bolsheviks immediately abandoned the revolutionary Petrograd, through which they seized power throughout Russia, and moved the capital to Moscow, which did not suspect the treachery and cruelty of the Bolsheviks.
Since then, Moscow is jealous to ensure that no city in the USSR has been a rival of a mighty center. The Second World War (the Great Patriotic War) finally made Moscow the city of "autocracy, grandeur" and the fate of Russia. The slogan of those times: "Great Russia, and retreat nowhere - behind Moscow. " Everything that happens in Moscow-upheaval, restructuring, PLCP, 20-year-old Putin's reign as an eternal ruler, then spreads throughout Russia.
So it was until the Kremlin decided to attack Ukraine and return it to the bosom of Russia as the former "pearl of the USSR". But it turned out that Ukraine has fiercely resisted and does not want to return to the USSR-2 in any way. Moreover, unexpectedly for Moscow and the population of other regions of Russia, Ukraine transfers hostilities to the territory of Russia, which creates different hardships of war for different regions of Russia.
Some regions have to endure the powerful military pressure of the Armed Forces, and other regions of Russia do not feel war, enjoy life and even earn in this war. As the situation on the front for Putin in the Russian Federation, the hidden, but real boundaries between different parts of Russia, began to manifest itself in the Russian Federation.
The criterion of latent manifestation of different Russian is-the attitude towards its, to the criminal war in Ukraine, the international isolation of Putin Russia, which was not expected by neither the Kremlin nor the middle class, the deterioration of the economic situation and a tense attitude to the Center-Moscow, which was unable to remove the Russian Federation from the crisis. This is a bad combination of negative factors for Moscow.