[tekkk]

That's ridiculously black and white. Putinism is not a stable state for any country by any means, and Russia has been hemorrhaging talent and companies left and right because of it.

Your notion of "democracies funded by global elite" and a "siphoning global middle class" sound more of conspiracy theory babble than anything rational. And by the way you have concluded that there are only two paths for Western societies, I'd say your judgment has become heavily biased.

[anovikov]

Well, there's a third choice: police state, just accept that people will go crazy and be prepared to counter it with brute force. But this is too close to what Lukashenka does.