CNN is way late to the game. Our elites at the State Department and their other propaganda organs have been predicting the collapse of Russia all along, to my recollection.
The Russian Federation’s collapse has been talked about ever since Putin switched President<—>Prime Minister with Medvedev.
At that point it was clear that not only had Putin centralized a big all-powerful government in himself and had no designated successor.
This is exactly how the Rurikids collapsed in the late 1500s.
When Putin invaded Ukraine for the second time in Feb 2022, it was clear that he was making the same mistake a Nicholas II and that Russia was overestimated just as it was before the Crimean war of 1853.
The Russian federation’s collapse due to the stupidity of Putin’s 22 year misrule was expected. Russia had a chance in the 1990s, but Putin stomped on it and ground it to dust