https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/vladimir-putin-threatens-arms-race-with-new-missiles-announcement
Vladimir Putin
has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of
strategic, nuclear-capable weapons that would be able to outmanoeuvre US
antiballistic missile defences, suggesting a new arms race between
Moscow and the west.
Speaking in a nationally televised address to Russia’s political
elite, the president showed both video and animation of Russian ICBMs,
nuclear-powered cruise missiles, underwater drones, and other weapons
that he said Russia had developed as a result of the US pulling out of the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty signed with the Soviet Union.
A massive unsustainable military, a dying centrally planned economy that does not work (think Fed QE etc..), and military quagmires everywhere.Internally things are similar in too many ways to the Soviet Implosion.