Russia’s economy is slowly rotting – Putin is mortgaging Russia’s future to pay for his present geopolitical aims

Quite prescient article given the subsequent [failure of Russia’s most recent attempt to issue bonds](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/30/russias-finance-ministry-fails-to-sell-bonds-as-borrowing-plans-weigh-on-market-a93834) and the [confiscation of subsidiaries of western countries](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/28/moscows-audacious-asset-grab-is-a-warning-to-western-companies-a93802) which are extremely bad signs for those that have invested in Russia. As they say in finance, people often overestimate short term effects and underestimate the long term.

The country’s demise is lined up to coincide with that of Putin…failing

Ha, my bad! I thought we were talking about Canada again!

So what’s going to happen to Russia if Russia’s economy collapses? Will they be desperate enough to use nukes, build a stronger army, make a peace agreement with the US, thus making the US more powerful in a dangerous way, deregulate and embrace more capitalism, become even more totalitarian, will they lose some of their homeland to invaders, or some other idea I haven’t considered?