AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
They are their own worst enemies, and have been for centuries. They arguably had a small window of opportunity to get it right and Westernize in the 90's in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse that they utterly squandered. There's no fixing that POS country.
To be fair, their history wasn't pretty - and they aren't the cause of some of their historical miseries (plenty of examples from the 19 and 20th C with an atrocious loss in lives and property).
AoD