Decolonization and Imperial Collapse

Nadin Brzezinski
9 min readJul 19, 2022
Map of Russian Regions. Green are the highest casualties

One of the consequences of this war will be the breakup of the Russian Federation. In fact, the process may already be starting. One signal is the possible attempt on the life of Nikolai Patrushev. Perhaps we had a coup attempt that failed, or he has gotten too much attention.

Regardless the knives, or in this case the poison, came out to the party. To anybody who has been paying attention, this is hardly a surprise. However, one thing is significant in the report on General SVR on Telegram:

The President was informed, one might say the last, when Patrushev’s life was no longer in danger. Who is behind the assassination attempt, what are the motives and how it became possible in general to organize an actually completed assassination attempt on a representative of such a high level of power, remains to be seen. But, something tells me, this is only the beginning of a big redistribution in the elites.

They are correct, this is the official beginning of the troubles. And as always, there is more.
In a Twitter feed for the Chechen resistance, we learned that:

Speaker of the battalion named after Sheikh Mansura Islam Belokiev said that the people of Ichkeria have started preparations for hostilities in Chechnya.

Ichkeria is divided into 3 fronts and 16…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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