https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/empire/Recent content in Empire on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/why-putin-cannot-stop-war-as-russia-s-form-of-existence/Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/why-putin-cannot-stop-war-as-russia-s-form-of-existence/An argument that the Kremlin will not end the war because peace has become more dangerous to it than continuation: war is now Russia's mode of existence, and only the dictator's death, a coup, or a crushing battlefield defeat can break the machine.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/russia-cannot-be-reformed-within-its-borders-the-case-for-imperial-collapse/Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/russia-cannot-be-reformed-within-its-borders-the-case-for-imperial-collapse/An argument that Russia is an empire pregnant with disintegration, that no reform can make it normal within its present borders, and that only full collapse — including its ethnic Russian core — can finally cure the imperial syndrome.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/an-idea-is-not-an-ideology-why-the-russian-world-cannot-reshape-history/Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/an-idea-is-not-an-ideology-why-the-russian-world-cannot-reshape-history/Putin and Trump cannot bend history the way Lenin or Genghis Khan did, because they have only power and money where those figures had a guiding idea. The "Russian world" is an idea, but never an ideology — it points only backward, which is why no one else has ever adopted it.