Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Is Russia still a great power? Long a dominant force, it remains a vast, resource-rich, and nuclear-armed nation, maintaining a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Yet its economy is weak, and its soft power limited, while the Ukraine war has revealed key military and structural flaws. Weighed all together, Russia, today, is left better at disruption, rather than leadership.

#Geopolitics #Russia #GreatPower #InternationalRelations #GlobalPolitics
#UkraineWar #WorldAffairs #PowerShift #ForeignPolicy #UNSecurityCouncil #JamesKerLindsay