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A good friend of mine worked for the Strategic Air Command in Omaha. His job was to select targets in Russia that would inflict the most economic damage. I don’t know if it’s still true today, but Russia always built one huge production facility for the entire country. Most production facilities (e.g., petroleum) were located deep in the interior of the country, making it more difficult for planes at the time to get bombers to the targets.
I wonder if that’s still true today and what would happen if they sent an armed drone (or whatever) to hit Russia’s diesel-producing facility.
The problem with Russian Rail is poor maintenance.
The rail system was divided a few years ago. Oligarchs friendly with the regime got the profitable routes. Routes that were not profitable were packaged together. The owners of these “bad” routes started cutting costs and maintenance to make mo ey for themselves.
Then the war started. They don’t have the infrastructure to keep loads moving. Bad rails and a lack of locomotives have been taking their tolls. And because of the extra stress on the system, now more stuff is breaking outright.
Any impact from Kursk is a “last straw” situation as a result of the normal manner of Russian life: Steal as much as you can carry. And run the rest of it into the ground.
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All the armor from Belarus will now sit in some marshaling yard, while UKR operators watch Russian rail movement from the central yard in real time.
Russian logistics will have to detour across Russia and enter directly into the Donbas region, or through Crimea ... as UKR operators watch and plan HIMARS strikes to obliterate the supplies and troops.
The New York Times writes that victory for Putin is now "definitely within reach."
"His [Putin's] latest peace proposal, under which Russia retains the occupied territories and Ukraine is banned from joining NATO, has been rejected by many Western leaders. However, in fact, this is the most realistic scenario for how this war will end," the newspaper writes.
That’s not to mention the grudgingly rosy picture it paints of Russia’s economic outlook:
Nor has the West managed to cut off the sources of Russia’s economic might, despite rounds of sanctions. The economy is growing healthily, and the assets of Russian oligarchs remain safe in the West, even if frozen. Most important, Russian oil is being bought and sold with minimal difficulty around the world as Western leaders can’t seem to decide what they want more: to meaningfully punish Russia or keep things as they are. Tellingly, the U.S. Treasury’s proposal to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions has stalled over the White House’s fear that higher gasoline prices won’t play well at the polls in November.
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