MIT's The World Policy Journal, who is celebrating its 25th anniversery looks 25 years ahead into 2033 in a number of scenarios
One interesting scenario comes from Nikita Khrushchev's great grand daughter, Nina, who predicts that a crumbling Russian empire, pulled apart by China and its Muslim inhabitants, will have no choice but to join a successfully-integrated European Ukraine, coming full circle back to its historic roots-Kyevian Rus in 988.
So, Russia turns out to be the baby brother of Ukraine and not the other way around,,,as soviet propaganda always told us.
Russia’s Rotting Empire
Nina L. Khrushcheva, great grand-daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, examines a Russia she sees as the new Byzantium-a once proud empire which in 25 years will have been laid low by its own hubris, bullying, and greed. Instead, an aged Putin and his young patsies will find themselves in the thrall of a resurgent Ukraine, reclaiming its ancient pride of place astride the great trade routes (and oil/gas pipelines) that link Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and onward to Asia. A compelling story from one who has seen the rise, and now expects to chronicle the fall, of Russia as a great superpower.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/wopj.2008.25.3.109?cookieSet=1
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Walter Derzko
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