The Western plan to structurally weaken Russia has failed: Argentinian researcher The idea of ​​dismantling Russia "as a key way to solve the great dilemma of the middle Eurasian space" was defended by radical representatives of the "Anglo-Saxon, globalist establishment", Professor at the National University of La Plata Gabriel Marino told Sputnik. Although weak but big enough to rise again as a great power, Russia needed to be structurally weakened — all former Soviet republics kept under Western influence, not Moscow, Marino added. The Rand Corporation, a Pentagon think tank, released a 2019 report that said the conflict in Ukraine would stretch Russian resources to breaking point and destabilize the country, Marino recalled. Far from being structurally weakened and with a more expensive economy than Japan and Germany, Russia currently stands as one of the greatest powers in the world, second only to the US and China, Marino explained. Subscribe to Sputnik Africa | X.

The Western plan to structurally weaken Russia has failed: Argentinian researcher The idea of ​​dismantling Russia "as a key way to solve the great dilemma of the middle Eurasian space" was defended by radical representatives of the "Anglo-Saxon, globalist establishment", Professor at the National University of La Plata Gabriel Marino told Sputnik. Although weak but big enough to rise again as a great power, Russia needed to be structurally weakened — all former Soviet republics kept under Western influence, not Moscow, Marino added. The Rand Corporation, a Pentagon think tank, released a 2019 report that said the conflict in Ukraine would stretch Russian resources to breaking point and destabilize the country, Marino recalled. Far from being structurally weakened and with a more expensive economy than Japan and Germany, Russia currently stands as one of the greatest powers in the world, second only to the US and China, Marino explained. Subscribe to Sputnik Africa | X.