"New Soviet Union"?Are you kidding, what era is this, how can there still be the USSR?
The international landscape in recent years has clearly shown that the US-led NATO has treated Russia as an adversary like the former Soviet Union and treated it uncompromisingly. At one time, the former Soviet Union and the United States were equal in power, tied for two superpowers in the world. At that time, China had not yet risen, its economy had not yet taken off, the European Union had not yet appeared, and the whole world had become an arena for the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in fierce competition in the military, economic, and aerospace fields, and each other won and lost, and eventually fell into a Cold War confrontation stage in which neither could completely defeat the other. In short, the two countries are equal in strength, and although they don't like each other, they don't have the ability to overthrow the other.
It turns out that there is no state in the world that can last forever, and the same is true of the balance between countries.
No one could have foreseen that a superpower as the former Soviet Union, without external military aggression, would collapse internally and completely disintegrate, and that all the countries of the former Soviet Union would become independent one after another, leaving Russia to inherit the legacy of the former Soviet Union and maintain the dignity of the former Soviet Union.
There were two main reasons for the collapse of the former Soviet Union:
The first is the question of people. The last leader of the Soviet Union at that time was Gorbachev, but unfortunately his talents were limited and his power was inferior to that of the Russian leader at that time, Yeltsin. Yeltsin, in order to achieve personal self-interest, ultimately ruined the Soviet Union.
The second is the issue of institutions. At the beginning of the Soviet Union, a number of countries were forcibly incorporated into a union, and each country within this alliance retained its own characteristics, laying the groundwork for its later disintegration.
Human problems are unavoidable, because human beings have selfish intentions. This was true of Yeltsin, as were the leaders of many of the Soviet Union member states, whose idea of "preferring to be the head of a chicken to the tail of a phoenix" hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, institutional issues can be optimized. At this point, Russia and Belarus are trying new models, that is, not to create a "federation of states", as in the former Soviet Union, but to create a "federal state" of Russia and Belarus.
The former emphasizes the federation and the latter emphasizes the state, and a comparison can show the advantages and disadvantages.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia recovered from its grief and was ready to reconnect with its former member states, most countries chose to refuse and began to embrace the West. They joined NATO, invited NATO troops, in short, they wanted to sever ties with the former Soviet Union.
There is only one country that has come forward and expressed its willingness to join hands with Russia to return to the intimacy of the former Soviet Union: Belarus. People call Russia "Big Bear", and Belarus "Second Bear", which means the younger brother of Big Bear. It can be seen that in the eyes of people, the relationship between Russia and Belarus is like two brothers.
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Belarus became more close, realizing that it would be difficult to succeed if they were to return to the model of the former Soviet Union's "federation of states" because the union was not stable enough. In order to avoid the tragedy of the former Soviet Union, the two countries decided to break with traditional thinking and establish a "federal state" of Russia + Belarus, so that the two federations would form one state, and the state would be the core, not the federation.
Belarusian Alexander Lukashenko and Russian Putin began to gradually advance the construction of this "federal state", also known as the "new Soviet Union", which they welcomed.
In 1999, the parties signed the Treaty of the Russian-Belarusian Union of States, which preliminarily decided to form a federal state consisting of Russia and Belarus, the "new Soviet Union".In 2021, the two sides signed the Treaty on the Establishment of Union States for the Period 2021-2023, which further stipulates the monetary, legal, and economic aspects of the "new Soviet Union".
While Russia and Belarus still need time to push for a "new Soviet Union," the plan is likely to succeed if Putin succeeds in re-election next year. The fact that the two countries are now closely linked and together form one nation is a good thing for the people of both countries.
In addition, in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, due to Belarus's staunch support for Russia, it caused dissatisfaction among NATO, and even threatened to bomb Belarus. In the face of NATO threats, Lukashenko responded firmly that if NATO attacks Russia and Belarus, ICBMs carrying nuclear warheads will destroy all of Europe and the United States.
The military threat of NATO instead catalyzed the creation of a "new Soviet Union". Now, it seems that it is only a matter of time before Russia and Belarus create a "new Soviet Union", and this goal will basically be achieved after Putin's successful re-election next year.
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