The Soviet superpower disintegrated in 1991 largely as a result of:
* Getting bogged down in a war it couldn't win in Afghanistan,
* Declining domestic oil production and dependence on expensive and unreliable foreign sources of supply to meet its energy needs,
* Soaring military expenditures necessary to enable it to respond to what its real and imagined challengers were doing,
* Unsustainable budget deficits and foreign debt,
* Its political and governmental institutions and systems having become bloated, balky, unresponsive, corrupt, and incapable of reform, and
* Delusions of grandeur that prevented honest discussions of the problems it was facing.
Who's currently in such a situation?
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