Do you the only way to halt this process is to impose a global progressive tax on wealth, & if so why? Russia and Central Asia Is Russia going to regain a position as a major geopolitical power? Russia has been a power in one way or another at least since at least the 15th century. The country is one of the main nodes of the Orthodox religion, which it shares with the other Slavic people and Greece. Russia has for several centuries been an empire, expanding and contracting periodically. It reached a zenith in its power in the Soviet era, dominating Eurasia from East Germany to the Pacific. Obviously, its geographic domain has shrunk since then but is still massive. From a geopolitical point of view Russia has always sought to establish buffers around its core running from St Petersburg to the Black Sea and East to the Urals. Its buffers have been Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the West, the Caucasus region in the near South and Central Asia to the south of the Steppes. The loss of all these buffer states with the collapse of the Soviet Union has left Russia feeling vulnerable. Since 2000 when Putin came to power, Russia has been actively rebuilding its buffers: It has effectively neutered Moldova, a very poor anyway, by encouraging the independence of Transnistria.
Do you the only way to halt this process is to impose a global progressive tax on wealth, & if so why? Russia and Central Asia Is Russia going to regain a position as a major geopolitical power? Russia has been a power in one way or another at least since at least the 15th century. The country is one of the main nodes of the Orthodox religion, which it shares with the other Slavic people and Greece. Russia has for several centuries been an empire, expanding and contracting periodically. It reached a zenith in its power in the Soviet era, dominating Eurasia from East Germany to the Pacific. Obviously, its geographic domain has shrunk since then but is still massive. From a geopolitical point of view Russia has always sought to establish buffers around its core running from St Petersburg to the Black Sea and East to the Urals. Its buffers have been Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the West, the Caucasus region in the near South and Central Asia to the south of the Steppes. The loss of all these buffer states with the collapse of the Soviet Union has left Russia feeling vulnerable. Since 2000 when Putin came to power, Russia has been actively rebuilding its buffers: It has effectively neutered Moldova, a very poor anyway, by encouraging the independence of Transnistria.
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