Financial fallout of invasion
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5000+ anti-war protesters have been arrested and beaten in Russia. The RCB has raised interest rates from 9.5% to 20%.
Putin's dictatorial privilege must be protected, it's costly. FSB officers and eventually the Russian Mob will need to pitch in should the protests grow. How willing is Czar Putinesca to mass slaughter his own people?
Where Are Russia’s Drones?
The Ukraine invasion offers scant evidence of the Russian military’s hard-won prowess with unmanned aircraft.
www.defenseone.com
“And so, how is it that the United States can deal with a power in Moscow and a power in Beijing, both of which chafe at what they believe to be an American dominated international order, but don't give them their rightful place and their rightful kind of influence, and are determined to do something about it, even use violence or coercion in order to change that? There's no easy answer to that. And in fact, some of the things that we're in the process of doing, like sanctioning Russia, throwing them off the international financial system and so forth, is likely to push them further into the arms of the Chinese just because they will have fewer economic options.”
Summary: Russia and china are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to do.
and this is when people realize they lived in golden prisons. Naivety is a powerful drug.
China won't go along with the sanctions, true.Where Are Russia’s Drones?
The Ukraine invasion offers scant evidence of the Russian military’s hard-won prowess with unmanned aircraft.
“And so, how is it that the United States can deal with a power in Moscow and a power in Beijing, both of which chafe at what they believe to be an American dominated international order, but don't give them their rightful place and their rightful kind of influence, and are determined to do something about it, even use violence or coercion in order to change that? There's no easy answer to that. And in fact, some of the things that we're in the process of doing, like sanctioning Russia, throwing them off the international financial system and so forth, is likely to push them further into the arms of the Chinese just because they will have fewer economic options.”
Summary: Russia and china are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to do.
But everyone else is.
Why isn't Russia using their air force?
Is it as messed up as their convoy and army?
Why hasn’t Russia mobilised its vast air power against Ukraine?
First six days of invasion have confounded expectations Russia would try to immediately destroy Ukraine’s air force.
While the rest of the world sits, idly by, Yeah, right!! I had been wondering about drones, though. EU is now sending aircraft, do all of them have to be manned? That big convoy makes an awfully fat target from the air...Where Are Russia’s Drones?
The Ukraine invasion offers scant evidence of the Russian military’s hard-won prowess with unmanned aircraft.
Summary: Russia and china are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to do.
I think both sides are trying not to make their tactics public.
“We are striking the enemy’s columns,” Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov told Military Times in an exclusive interview Wednesday morning. “We burn many columns of the enemy.”
The strikes, he said, are being conducted by Ukraine Su-24 and Su-25 fighter jets, artillery and missile barrages.
“My intelligence officers and agents are directing and calling the strikes,” he said.
Marine Lt. Col. Anton Semelroth, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday morning he “would not speak to intel assessments.”
