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It's going to take a while for the Kremlin to spin this. Russia apparently supports RSF, so if the RSF shot down the plane, it didn't go very well for them. I'm sure they will "discover" Ukrainian or Anglo-Saxon influence.
Russia is fine and then it's not.
Workers at a Kuzbass mine have gone on a hunger strike over wage arrears. And in the video, the mine's management is again asking people to go to work despite their debts
Mad Vlad's second Reich is not working out too well. Better chuck Aleksandr Dugin's book in the bin.
Another $800 million there from the US for Ukrainian drone production.
List of Russian officials and prominent figures who have "allegedly" committed suicide. Including the guy who shot himself in the chest 5 times.
https://www.ibtimes.com/full-list-russian-executives-officials-die-alleged-suicide-under-putin-latest-oil-tycoon-3747556
Maybe he had 5 guns?
There was a good and in depth economist podcast from Ukraine recently, speaking to various Ukrainian military and political people and civilians, and it was clear that very few think there is any chance of reclaiming the lost territory in the near future, yes Russia has serious man power and equipment issues but so does Ukraine and going on like this for years and years is simply not an option.
Quite what an acceptable compromise victory really looks like though is a harder question to answer.
This would be more serious for Putin than police stations getting petrol bombed for example. Miners are hard men, and usually are well unionized with good local support. There have been multiple cases in history where they have influenced political outcomes.
https://emerging-europe.com/analysis/the-explainer-romanias-miners/
If I remember rightly in the late 1980s the miners striking speeded up the retreat from Afghanistan. They are literary the canaries in the Russian engine.
They don't even need to be front line troops ,rear area, engaged in,security , training , logistics , and air defense,
That'd free up Ukrainian troops and equipment,
Eh no.
Even if it's only superficially damaged smoke and dust in a clean room facility - not a good out come for Russia, and hopefully knackered some vital hard to replace equipment too
News that the French Foreign Legion are coming to Ukraine to fight beside the Ukrainians, will be just the thing to cheer up Russians already in the trenches, not to mention those being prepared for the trenches….I wonder if it will merit a red line event from Medvedev?? Or even a nuke Paris threat???
How f'ed up can one nation be?
Messed up
The Russo-Ukrainian war becoming a Korean proxy war would certainly be one of the stranger developments of the last century.
lol
'I Want to Break Free' (Queen) Performed In North Korea
Well at least we now know where the UN secretary Generals allegiance lies.
Bought and paid for.
Her name was Natasha.
And it's all on tape!
There is a video from the BBC of the Moldovan election where they unintentionally discovered some votes being bought. They were hanging around a polling center interviewing voters when one old woman started asking “when will I get my payment for making the vote?” She said that “a man” had asked her and others to vote a certain way for about 10euros, but she wouldn’t say which way. She was trying to get in contact with him again to get her payment.
Interesting analysis
She came from Novosibirsk. We drank vodka from bottles.
I wonder how much involvement South Korea will have in Ukraine? There may well be some military representatives there already given that they want to interrogate any captured North Koreans. Will they go the whole hog and provide troops to match the NK contingent, or will they hold back in case it triggers a conflict on the Korean peninsula?
The situation gets more dangerous every day, all thanks to Mad Vlad thinking that no one outside Russia or Ukraine would bother themselves if he waltzed into Ukraine for his 3 day operation.
There does appear to be evidence out there that Russia has burned through (somewhat literally) a huge amount of it's soviet arsenal. Lots of storage depots are running low, as your post points out, refurbished rates and build rates are not good, it's an incredibly impressive waste of resources by the Russians.
What does he mean exactly, "final stages of active phase" ? How do we find their analysis ?
It is based on Budanov's speech. Final active phase seems to mean Russia is running out of everything. They are losing a train load of stuff every day in Ukraine.
They don't even have to run out of everything. Once they reach a certain level of losses they can't stay in the war or, at least, the can't win it.
Here's hoping.
But it's also plausible that Russia could just send another 500,000 people to the slaughter, and replenish weapons either domestically or via North Korea and Iran.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there does exist a point when they run out of everything and cannot continue the "special military operation". I just doubt whether we are actually getting close to that point.
It really makes me feel like allowing long-range missile strikes can speed up the end of the war.
How will allowing long range missiles change anything when Ukraine only has 30% of it's energy infrastructure left and that can be destroyed in 20 minutes.
Let’s say things don’t go Ukraine’s way and Russia wins, obviously it won’t be all embracing Ukranians to their bosoms and there will still be sanctions etc.
They will still be in a bad state for a long time, isn’t a Pyrrhic victory the best they can hope for?
