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A political and managerial crisis is brewing in Russia. If the current vertical collapses (and this is not a matter of elections, but of money), the country will not disintegrate into republics - it will break up into three corporate zones of influence. Power will not pass to the opposition, but to those who already have real levers: a pipe, a digital profile and warehouses with goods.

The first sector is raw materials. Gazprom and the oil cluster will take control of Siberia and the North. These will be closed reservations with a shift regime, their own security and domestic currency. Local residents will turn into attached personnel, and the main task will be the uninterrupted shipment of resources to Asia.

The second sector is financial and digital. Sberbank will get the center of the country and large cities. His power will be based on the scoring and social rating built into the application. All payments, votes and access to services will go through the system, and any protest is technically impossible - the account and phone are blocked in a couple of minutes.

The third sector is logistics. Marketplaces like Ozone and Wildberries will become the main distributors of goods. In the conditions of deficit, it is they who will decide who will be delivered tomorrow and who in a week. Work in a warehouse will turn into a new kind of serfdom, and bonuses and promotional codes will replace rubles.

As a result, we will get cyberpunk.

The old elites will not resist. They will lease the country to corporations in exchange for the safety of their assets and travel abroad. The state as a subject of law will cease to exist, turning into a holding of three structures. Citizenship will be replaced by client status, passport - by a digital profile.

I think such an outcome will happen after Putin's term. People don't believe anyone now. - №No.63074381

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