The USSR tried unsuccessfully to dominate the world in its day and failed……climate change is real and could it be just the thing Russia needs to finally dominate?
Around the world, climate change is becoming an epochal crisis, a nightmare of drought, desertification, flooding and unbearable heat, threatening to make vast regions less habitable and drive the greatest migration of refugees in history. But for a few nations, climate change will present an unparalleled opportunity, as the planet’s coldest regions become more temperate. There is plenty of reason to think that those places will also receive an extraordinary influx of people displaced from the hottest parts of the world as the climate warms. Human migration, historically, has been driven by the pursuit of prosperity even more so than it has by environmental strife. With climate change, prosperity and habitability — haven and economic opportunity — will soon become one and the same.
And no country may be better positioned to capitalize on climate change than Russia. Russia has the largest land mass by far of any northern nation. It is positioned farther north than all of its South Asian neighbors, which collectively are home to the largest global population fending off displacement from rising seas, drought and an overheating climate. Like Canada, Russia is rich in resources and land, with room to grow. Its crop production is expected to be boosted by warming temperatures over the coming decades even as farm yields in the United States, Europe and India are all forecast to decrease. And whether by accident or cunning strategy or, most likely, some combination of the two, the steps its leaders have steadily taken — planting flags in the Arctic and propping up domestic grain production among them — have increasingly positioned Russia to regain its superpower mantle in a warmer world.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-big-thaw-how-russia-could-dominate-a-warming-world
While we ignore the consequences of climate change the Russians are preparing for their day of ascension…
Will we wake up in time? Or will we try to snooze our way through the coming crisis?
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Hope not!
Me as well…a lot depends on what Biden does he has the reins…..chuq
If life gets better for the average Russians, I don’t see that as a problem. If they end up controlling too large a percentage of world food production, then it might become one.
Best wishes, Pete.
I believe that Russia is more concerned with the international scene than their own people. chuq
Does nobody fear China has ambitions ruling the future? 😉 Germany tries to deal with Russia, and China too. Only the USA – it seems – is no welcomed partner for future.Michael
We should be avoided like the plague until we prove we are a secure partner. chuq
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I doubt it, but it will be a wonderful day whenever the USA is not running the world.
Biden will be NO help in that area either….chuq
Interesting thought, but not very likely to succeed. Russia is still a backwards country that might want to dominate the world, but is ill-equipped to do so. An economy the equivalent of Italy couldn’t handle it. I think China could try, but I believe they are more focused on behind the scenes economic power.
I have been writing about China as well….be well chuq