American and Soviet scientist Sergey Lopatnikov shared an analysis regarding the degradation of Russia on his page "Antidote SL" on Telegram. Due to such a deplorable state of affairs, the capitulation of Russia and the disintegration of the country into separate states is soon possible.
Sergey Lopatnikov is the head of the American laboratory for mathematical modeling methods at the University of Delaware, and a former leading researcher at Russia's MSU (Moscow State University). He has been living in the USA since the early 2000s. Here’s what he writes on his Telegram, quote: "Russia in no way proves that it is the 'successor of the USSR'. For a person who has lived a significant part of their life in the USSR, it is very difficult to look at the situation from the outside and realize that the USSR was not Russia at all, and Russia, even more so, is not the USSR.
I spent some time to realize some objective things. The first and foremost, in Russia today, a whole range of closed technological lines has been destroyed, including processor manufacturing, in which Russia occupies a narrow but important niche for certain applications - high radiation-resistant electronics. But otherwise, Russia is lagging not by generations, but by technological eras. Russia does not produce high-precision optics, for example, without which chip production is impossible, and even in terms of those chips of extremely low resolution that Russia is capable of producing in any way, the yield is anecdotal low. Russia does not produce basic equipment for chip manufacturing even close to any resolution. Russia has no basic software, no operating systems. And so on. Russia is even unable to produce quality batteries. And this is only touching on the modern industry or industries, on which today hardly everything relies, like on pig iron production in the 16th century. The technologies for producing CNC machines, which the USSR supplied to Britain and Japan, have been lost. And so on and so forth.
Russia has lost a significant part of its strategic aviation and does not have the manufacturing potential to restore it, even the Stalin-era Tu-95s and long-range detection aircraft. And do not be deceived about "There are no analogues". At best, these are unfinished Soviet developments taken off the shelf, implemented with a delay of 40 years, half a century. It seems that there are critical problems with nuclear weapons as well.
So today, Russia is, if not a third-world country, then something intermediate between the third and second worlds, but closer to the third. I mean, it's really "not great".
And there is a feeling that Russia is rapidly sliding in technological terms. And the brightest proof of this is the absolutely disgraceful results of the already fourth war, two Chechen wars, the Georgian-Ossetian war, and now the war with Ukraine, when Russia, in the case of Chechnya, only with disproportionately huge efforts barely managed to pull through, in Georgia did not achieve the simplest goals that it could and should have achieved, and the results of the war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine are impossible to discuss without tears.
In addition, Russia is rapidly degrading intellectually, replacing scientific atheism with primitive religiosity.
No. Russia is not the USSR. And if Russia loses its nuclear weapons, it will firmly return to the ranks of third-world countries, at best like Iran. And even that is unlikely. That’s why I say. A critical sign will be the launch or non-launch of breeder reactors. If they are not launched, it means there is a strategy for the relatively peaceful dismemberment of Russia, and the war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine acquires a completely special and unexpected, at first glance, meaning - the creation of a sustainably hostile state of Moscow.
For now, Russia is needed by the USA as a potentially anti-Chinese space. And this is the only thing that can currently ensure its unity. But it’s not a fact that this will last long.
And on top of that: as for resources, they are needed. But for this, Russia and Russian actors are not needed. And one more thing. The modern Russian government is sitting on the fence regarding the USSR. On the one hand, it attributes the achievements of the USSR to Russia (that is, to itself) and at the same time tries to kill and reinterpret everything that was the reason for those successes.
Let’s count from March 1985, with Gorbachev’s arrival: 40 years - more than half of the existence of the USSR. AND IN RUSSIA THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. A dead zone. The "failed" Soviet 3% annual growth of recent years, which started all this nonsense with cries: "Aaaa - this is a failure of the Soviet economy!" - today this is an unattainable achievement. About Stalin's 10000% industrial growth over 20 years - from 1921 to 1941, which today is hard to believe, let alone talk about. So all that remains for the fools in Russia is to chase the Antichrist and 'gays' on TV... I wish my eyes had never seen this ward No. 6!
