StevoJH
The Bunker Group
@Ikimieli
Just to be clear, Russia is not the Soviet Union. It has nothing like the human, industrial or financial capital that was available to the Soviet Union prior to its breakup or in decades before.
The Soviet Union even without counting the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact had a population similar to or greater then all European NATO members combined. When the Union broke apart, not only did they lose huge amounts of human capital, they also lost huge amounts of Industrial capability in key areas due to key factories being located outside the borders of what later became Russia.
Russia also has severe demographic constraints due to low fertility rates.