The Russian economy continues driving over the cliff, the Bone-Crushing (Trump-Style) Sanctions Bill continues to advance toward law, and Russia’s nuclear facilities have been exposed to the world in great detail.
Now that the restrictions on Ukrainian long range strikes into Russia have been lifted, Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces are rapidly following their once great tank fleet to the scrap yard of history.
Conditions are being set for a post war world, where Russia, the “gas station with nukes” is no longer a credible player at either hydrocarbon production or nuclear war fighting, and lacks the available capital to rebuild them anytime soon.
Putin is why Russia can’t have nice things. They need a non sociopathic, mass murdering gangster running their country, before they can come in from the cold.
Great comment.