The regime collapsed when the Portuguese colonial war in Africa consumed up to 40 percent of the national budget, and a new generation of university-educated military officials began spreading through the armed forces.
Portugal endured a dictatorial regime for almost 42 years, one of the longest in modern Europe, which was tolerated by NATO due to its anti-communist stance. [1],[2]
Interestingly enough, Russia is currently spending more than 40% of its budget on the war. [3]
A far more effective strategy to force them out of Ukraine, would be genuine economic starvation. Instead, the West tolerated hundreds of businesses continuing to operate in Russia.[4]
The most likely explanation for agent Krasnov’s, (currently occupying the White House), sense of urgency to halt the war in Ukraine, and use it as a pretext to restart economic ties with Russia is the impending collapse of the Russian economy.[5]
If the USA were to leverage its real and soft power by issuing executive orders that refuse to allow any company to do business with Russia. And by threatening sanctions on India and China for enabling the Russian economy, it would force India and China to choose between access to the US market and economic prosperity, or support for Putin. The war would cease, employing the same tactics Reagan used to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
Instead, the US administration chose to betray the entire West, by yielding to Russian demands.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salaz...
[3] https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/1...
[4] https://leave-russia.org/
[5] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/01/russias-economic-dilemm...
