Memes

We have kind of already seen a worse version of this already with USSR. Stalin was an Authoritarian Totalitarian(TM) and the west was not happy about that. Khrushchev was anti-Stalin but the west was not happy about that either. Gorbachev destroyed USSR to appease the west but they were not happy about that either. He opened up both the economy and political leadership according to western demands but they were still not happy. Following the mass murder of glasnost and perestroika Putin consolidated his position riding the wave of nationalist fervor and we know how that went with the west. God knows what it will take to make them happy. (Hint: It's replacing the ruling class with one that is US' stooge that will deindustrialise Russia, possibly Balkanise them and reduce them to a colony that is nothing but a source of raw materials and low value adding labour.)