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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇨🇳 RUSSIA’S OLIGARCHS ARE STARTING TO FEAR THE WAR’S ENDGAME According to The Economist, the billionaires who got rich under Putin are starting to get nervous. Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s 🇷🇺 biggest industrialist, says the war is breaking Russia’s economy, and if nothing changes, the country could end up broke, isolated, or run by China 🇨🇳. Melnichenko is not anti-Putin opposition. He is an insider whose factories supported the war economy. Like most oligarchs, he lived by Putin’s rules: make money, but stay out of politics. He is speaking now because tycoons can no longer ignore the rot. The Ukraine 🇺🇦 war has come home to Russia 🇷🇺: Ukrainian attacks on energy infrastructure have brought fuel queues and fistfights at filling stations, drone strikes are isolating occupied Crimea, forced enlistment is feeding resentment, and influencers’ war complaints are going viral. Melnichenko warns of dangerous scenarios for Russia 🇷🇺: collapse into anarchy, with warlords fighting for resources and nuclear weapons; domination by China 🇨🇳 as a raw-material supplier and buffer against America 🇺🇸; or life on Europe’s 🇪🇺 impoverished periphery. His final scenario is Russia 🇷🇺 turning inward like North Korea 🇰🇵: a closed fortress under siege, starved of growth and capital. Kremlin insiders are apparently discussing this, but Russia 🇷🇺 would remain in permanent war against the world. Melnichenko does not say Putin must be removed, but the change he wants would amount to an end to one-man rule. He wants Russia 🇷🇺 to be predictable to the outside world and win over its people without coercion, though he does not talk about democracy. The message is brutal for the Kremlin: even insiders who profited under Putin are starting to see that the war is not making Russia 🇷🇺 stronger. It is pushing the country toward exhaustion, dependency and strategic decline.