19 May, 22:45
Every political model has certain flaws. The construction of the model of the Moscow Empire — or Moscow and its colonies united under the name Russia — is built entirely from flaws, shortcomings, and defects of Western and Eastern governance systems. This became possible due to the geographical location of the last empire — or the “Z” empire. Z — the last letter of the Latin alphabet — was not chosen by chance as the symbol of Moscow’s last crusade against Rome.
A Fascist Regime Without Alternatives
Moscow has indeed constantly tried to adopt the experience of Eastern and Western countries, combining them, but due to the absence of its own foundation, this superstructure had no chance of survival. However, this did not change either the course or the direction of the empire’s development, which constantly used force as a resource to repair the system and keep it from collapsing.
The strategic inability of the Moscow authorities to escape the cycle of self-destruction led to the fact that in 2019–2020, when the Kremlin had the last real chance to reformat itself, the regime finally chose fascistization — the loss of the remnants of political flexibility, opting for war and repression.
That is why it is necessary to know and understand that even after the war in Ukraine ends, the Kremlin will have no other choice but to maintain imperial control through mobilization, conflict, and fear. This is not merely a policy — it is the only survival model for a system that no longer has any mechanisms for peaceful existence or adaptation.
The Perfect Storm and the Effect of Irreversibility
In 2014, a combination of sanctions, governance degradation, war, kleptocracy, and structural economic weakness created a situation from which there is no longer an exit within the existing political model of Russia. That is why 2019 was supposed to be the last peaceful year, and only the COVID epidemic saved Ukraine from war at that time.
Key point: the Kremlin knew about the inevitability of catastrophe and understood that war was not a solution. But they also understood that ending the war would lead to the dismantling of the entire system — due to a complete loss of functionality in the state apparatus.
Fascistization as a Rescue Plan for the Empire
Putin’s attempt in 2020 to create a controlled transformation of the regime failed — it became necessary to reset presidential terms and cling to power using the security forces. From that moment, any transformation became technically impossible, and the only form of self-preservation was the constant escalation of violence, militarization, and repression.
This is a classic symptom of fascist drift — when the authorities are incapable of generating a positive agenda and are forced to feed on fear and conflict. The regime ceases to be a power of progress and development and becomes a power of retention through enmity and war.
War — the Only Legitimation of Kremlin Power
According to this logic, the end of the war does not eliminate the threat to the Kremlin. Because the war served not only as justification for all the regime’s failures but also as a means of preserving a mobilized reality and channeling negativity and protest. The conditions of peace, where there is no enemy, are a scenario of collapse for the Empire. Therefore, no one in the Kremlin will dare raise the question of ending the war with Ukraine. The only question there is: with whom and when to fight next?
This could be:
a new external conflict on the territory of former colonies — Moldova, the Baltic states, Kazakhstan;
an internal enemy — an imagined coup, “Ukrainian terrorists”;
a hybrid model — “Western underground agents” inside Russia, legitimizing internal terror as a continuation of the “war with NATO” via proxies in the EU.
Narrowing Corridor: No Choice, No Future
The Putin regime, like the Moscow regime in general, no longer has any field for decisions. Any reversal or deviation is equal to self-destruction. Only a narrow corridor remains — which in any case leads to collapse. And it so happens that instead of slowing down, the Kremlin only accelerates movement down this corridor, increasing the cost of an inevitably disintegrating future.
This is not fatalism, but a structural analysis of systemic incapacity. A system that cannot exist without war is doomed to constantly seek war. And since every war eventually ends — at the very least due to exhaustion — and the system cannot function without war, it is doomed to collapse.
Conclusion: A Regime as a Self-Reproducing Catastrophe
Russia has turned into a regime for which the path to catastrophe is not the result of a mistake, but the only way to exist. This is the end of history in the literal sense — not a philosophical one, but an administrative one: a state that cannot govern by any means other than terror will eventually lose the ability to govern at all.
When any pause between catastrophes becomes a danger to power — the only remaining option is permanent catastrophe.
🧩 Final Quote:
“War is not a coincidence, not a miscalculation, not a method, and not a means. It is the only meaning of Russia’s existence.
Russia does not wage war for something. It exists for the sake of war.”
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