VIDEO:
Shoigu and his entourage stole 80% of the money for the war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amq4PEmeds8
I read today via the German news....contracted Conscripts for the Russians are being rotated out to some remote Russian base...given their civilian clothing back, and the cash promised for their couple of months in the war-zone...was NOT forthcoming. The base didn’t even offer a ride to the local bus station.
Even now, someone is still taking a major cut on funding.
“They (officials in the Russian Ministry of Defense – UNIAN) were not ready for this war, they lived simply by enriching themselves and pocketing the budget,” the FBK official noted.
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When early reports on just how bad the Russian Army was (in training and equipment) I posted it was most likely because of corruption (from top down).
All bureaucracies have to potential for corruption but the communist system actually encourages it (indirectly).
The biggest problem (but not the only one) is that every one is on the take. The next problem is that the leadership at each level does not want to hear any bad news. Good news is rewarded and bad news is punished, so who is going to be a whistleblower?)
China uses the exact same system.
Deflecting to highlight the corruption in Russia while never ever once highlighting the utter corruption of Ukraine. Typical. Truth be told, the deflection is more akin to changing the topic off of high Ukraine is imploding militarily....given that vaunted million man army never materialized, Ukraine has resorted to recruiting handcapps, the elderly, the mythical Kherson offensive did not happen as foretold and will not happen, Ukrainian tanks. planes, and artillery are nearly exhausted, half the HIMARs sent by the US are destroyed, the German artillery sent is sh*t, etc., etc. Ukrainian pin pricks won’t win this conflict nor turn the tide of its inevitability.
The replies at the site are interesting:
“Yes, this unabashed and deep-seated corruption in mafia land saved a lot of Ukrainian lives and cost a lot of cockroach ones. And, fortunately, there is no end in sight to this enormous corruption. Every new effort to pump more money into the military complex will also result in the funds being drained away into dark channels.”
Russia and Ukraine are corrupt. So is the US and the whole western world. Seems if you are FOR Ukraine you would be far more concerned about the corruption of Zelensky and his oligarchs.
I find this obsession with Russia very odd and suspect. Seems you would be glad if Russia was hurting Russia.
This is no real surprise. The Russian space program is in similar shape. Putin, like any good commie, centralized the Russian space program, and the people at the top have funneled enormous funds for themselves.
The only real money the Russians could make came from transportation to and from the Space Station. Now that SpaceX can transport people and cargo, we no longer have to depend on the Russians. Another win for free enterprise.
The leftists & the anti-Trump factions are both renowned for projecting their actions upon Trump or conservatives, depending upon whom they want to deflect onto at the time, and you fell for it again.
Meanwhile even ABC, or one of the other alphabet news sources, slipped and printed the truth that very same story-line regarding Ukraine, but then suddenly pulled it back.
You are such a gullible person, and that's using my kind take on you.
What a piddling set of ribbons vs Milley.
the “ghost of Kiev” is still patrolling the skies and shooting down Migs daily.