With all the money going into the Ukraine war and other ventures since Putin came to power, I imagine there’s a lot of stuff he could’ve done to make the world a better place and Russia a formidable world power.
The amount of minable materials in the vast area of Siberia could have set russia up as an economic powerhouse. That’s why China is helping them run themselves into the meat grinder in Ukraine. The inevitable collapse will allow them to scoop up the area.
He would have stepped down in 2008 per constitutional limits.
- Established Moscow as an international hub for commerce and industry
- Waged economical war with China to be the largest economy in Asia
- Buried the hatchet with Japan over the northern islands
- Created a direct competitor for BRICS (BICS) and tried to tie his own Asian coalition with the European Union.
- Rebooted the Russian space program to compete with NASA/SpaceX
Watching For All Mankind makes me feel bad for present-day Russians because even those Soviet Russians have it better.
Try to establish a proper western-style liberal democratic system and culture in Russia. They have a constitution that is nominally liberal democratic, but they are so used to authoritarian rule that they can’t really manage to keep it that way.
Scary is that in a few years the USA could have that exact description
Retired after 2 terms in office
Use the vast resources to invest in the country such as building green energy, public transportation, plant agriculture, housing, manufacturing and education to try to outcompete the other European nations in metrics such as the democracy index, human happiness index, corruption index.
Allow the regions to leave any time they want and if that does happen take it as a lesson for his leadership.
The smartest thing any leader could do at this point is educate the next generation.
He could have opened a lot of colleges and invited scholars from all over the world to come and learn for free.
Push the US, Europe and China to invest in asteroid mining and space colonization.
Cracked down on corruption and entered russia into the eu
Joining the EU? Would that have even been possible?
I mean, I think it would’ve been awesome to be able travel to Russia without a VISA and just start working there…
Could be done, it’s a country in Europe. It reaches into Asia, but then again France reaches into South America and nobody complains.
EU isn’t only about open borders. It’s open market and lots more.
He could’ve sold all the nuclear warheads in exchange for goods which could be used as a foundation to get the ball rolling for the economic situation.
He would have united the globe, and then been isekai’d to another world where his only goal is to ride every creature in said world.
Good Putin was able to shoot himself in the head like 30 times.
