Posted on 01/07/2024 8:52:30 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
There are currently two wars that Russia is fighting: the kinetic one in Ukraine that receives all the attention—or at least received all the attention before the Gaza Crisis—and a financial one that remains relatively unnoticed. This hidden economic crisis is actually more important and relevant, and how Putin decides to address it will determine the outcome of the war on the field.
It takes a real idiot, a total mental midget, a stupid little kid, to think an entire economy might go down but somehow it is a secret only they know.
“LEAKED: Russia’s ENTIRE Economy Is About To IMPLODE”
Must be due to their $34 TRILLION national debt. They don’t have a chance!
Much has been made over the fact that Russia has increased it’s GDP figures. However, I suspect a lot of that increase is based on manufacture of weapons which are going to be destroyed again quite soon. Unless they are selling these weapons for actual income, just making them and destroying them is not really an increase of any value. The Western weapons have actually been looking quite good, so I don’t think Russia will have a thriving arms market.
Thus Russians have more weapons, but not more good food, clothing, housing, toilets, washing machines, and all the other things that make their people feel better when they have enough of them. In the US we have had an egg and chicken crisis because of major bird flu outbreaks and slaughter of infected chickens, which in our case is improving. Russians also seem to be affected by a similar problem. Now of course, more of their loved ones are being killed, so deprivations are even more to be angry about and eventually they may even realize that Putin is the cause.
The Generals (or more likely, the Colonels and Lieutenants) will need to come up with entirely new tactics to deal the new technology that is available.
The incompetent wokesters now being promoted in our military forces on the basis of "Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity" are not the people who are going to do any of that. We had best stay out of any major wars until they can be purged.
“the price of oil might remain soft because of the Asian economy sucks.”
Thanks for the analysis - rings true.
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