Posted on 11/11/2022 3:43:38 PM PST by Widget Jr
1 ruble = .016 USD
Russia would have to overturn its entire social system to substantially reform. It would have to completely expunge nearly every institutional hierarchy, not just the military.
So if someone asked you to give them your two cents' worth, you could give them a ruble and be pretty close.
More like running into the actual perfection of their graft and corruption.
Putin might wind up killing more generals than Stalin did.
You think corruption is bad here.....Read this article.
Reminds me of the California Bullet Train.
..........my GUESS is about 20% of what Congress and the President appropriate for defense ends up in bribes to Congressmen and women and others while in Russia it’s probably more like half.
Bkmk
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
for posting this article!
1989 is knocking.
Conscription/mobilization can't fix a lack of equipment and supplies. Might even make it worse.
What is that? About 25 bucks?
Well, yeah.
War Mapper
A timelapse of the rapid Ukrainian advance to liberate Kherson city and secure the areas of Kherson Oblast north of the Dnipro river.
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1591220371994607616?s=20&t=7K5L7hZFi5PowuHXUoYObw
The problem for Russia is the corruption. Always has been.
California would have to completely overturn its society in order to reform. Every California institution, public and private, will have to completely purge its leadership.
More than that, the pipelines that feed into leadership positions in every sphere of life will also have to be purged.
We are talking about a whole couple of generations of educated people that will need to be “lost”, or, rather, thrown away, as spoiled material.
Thats what it will take to fix California, and by extension the bulk of the United States.
Since the CCCP officially dissolved on December 26, 1991 that is not a bad guess. The longer the war goes on the greater the probability Russia faces another collapse. I am starting to think the invasion is turning Russia into a suicide cult on a two year suicide pact. During the first year the Russian military dies. 300,000 conscripts who barely know how to wear their uniforms or hold rifles will not change this. During the second year, the Russian government and economy die next. The Russian economy is dependent on the sale of oil and gas to buy what is needed to run the rest of the economy. Long term Russia is having its global trade cut deep. Even if Russia does not collapse again, the country will be so weakened politically and economically it will be hard to tell the difference.
Purging leadership won’t be enough because those people will inevitably find their way back into government.
No, we are past the point where much more aggressive actions are required.
Interesting article, if true but it does not pass the smell test in my opinion.
According to “jacknhoo” 1 Ruble = $.016 so the math says 22 Trillion Rubles = $352 Billion US.
Yet according to Wikipedia the entire Russian military budget for 2022-20221 was only $65.9 Billion US.
So forgive me but I doubt Russia has spent $352 Billion on a single arms production program.
It’s for 10 years, sir, read the source….
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