Editing Sick man of Europe (section)

=== Russia ===
The [[Russian Empire]] in 1917 was described as the "Sick Man of Europe" in an edition of ''The New York Times'' from that year. In the 1917 article by [[Charles Richard Crane]], the illness metaphor is used more directly, with the empire described as "Suffering From Overdose of Exaggerated Modernism in Socialist Reform Ideas", and "the danger for the patient lay in the fact that too many quacks and ignorant specialists were contending for the right to be admitted to the bedside and administer nostrums."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1917-09-26 |title=CRANE DIAGNOSES RUSSIA'S AILMENT; She Is Suffering From Overdose of Exaggerated Modernism in Socialist Reform Ideas. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/09/26/archives/crane-diagnoses-russias-ailment-she-is-suffering-from-overdose-of.html |access-date=2021-12-21 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Post-Soviet [[Russia]] has also been referred to as such in the 2007 book ''Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution'' by [[Peter Baker (author)|Peter Baker]] and [[Susan Glasser]],<ref>Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, ''Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution'' (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007), pp. 179–176.</ref> and by [[Mark Steyn]] in his 2006 book ''[[America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steyn |first=Mark |title=America alone: the end of the world as we know it |date=2008 |publisher=Regnery Publ |isbn=978-0-89526-078-9 |location=Washington/D.C}}</ref>

In the aftermath of the [[Wagner Group rebellion]] during the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] (and [[Vladimir Putin]]'s perceived weakness in confronting it), political scientist Aleksandar Đokić said in 2023 that the "sick man of Europe" moniker "seem[ed] fitting for Putin’s Russia". While acknowledging the term itself to be simplistic, Đokić stated that:

{{Quoteblock|text="The [[poetic justice]] of the imperialistic, [[Orientalism|orientalising]] and commonly overused term coming back to haunt its place of origin aside, Putin’s Russia has decidedly found itself in a military, economic, political, demographic, and even conceptual dead end."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Đokić |first=Aleksandar |date=19 July 2023 |title=An empire on its deathbed can still cause pain and suffering |work=[[Euronews]] |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/19/an-empire-on-its-deathbed-can-still-cause-pain-and-suffering}}</ref>}}