acts in the interests of its material conditions

It’s a foundational mistake of Marxists to reduce everything to material conditions. You will never understand the world, if that’s your only frame of reference.

Putin is the Czar. What’s on his matters most. Everything else is secondary or incidental.

China is ready to take over as the lead capitalist empire.

It’s late stage capitalism, bro, revolution is just around the corner, bro.

Repeat for 150 years.

No, it started a lot longer ago than that

You can listen to Putin himself and he goes back pretty far in history.