Russia is a Potemkin Nation, with a Potemkin leadership, a Potemkin Army, a Potemkin (or Kunetzov) navy, a Potemkin People, with foreign Potemkin supporters, a Potemkin currency, a Potemkin economy and ultimately, a Potemkin fate where it is completely abandoned and the paint scrapes off to reveal a deeply rotten structure on the verge of collapse