Russia is Suddenly Looking Weak

SUDDENLY LOOKING WEAK? What rock have you been living under?

Once Trump is in office, the war against Ukraine will end and Putin will keep much of the land he seized. That being said, once we start drilling for oil, the world supply will increase and Putin will have a lot less oil revenue to rebuild his armed forces. I doubt if his political enemies can depose him, especially since most of them have fallen out of tall buildings over the years.

I find it VERY interesting that Russia is facing crippling inflation, like the US, for the same reason; excessive government spending on a war. Russia for a war on Ukraine. The US for a war against her own people by spending on useless Green causes, enormous amounts of payoffs to special interests, billions of dollars on fraudsters, more than normal waste, and spending for Ukraine on the other side of the war. If excessive Russian spending made them weaker, doesn't that imply that excess US spending has made us weaker as well? We are about to have Trump start setting things right. However, Russia seems stuck with Putin. Putin, by now, is probably eager to have a way out of Ukraine. With the US poised for energy resurgence, Russia's income stream will be imperiled. Plus, the US is rapidly turning from green energy idiocy and Europe, unless they want to be completely uncompetitive, will be forced to confront reality as well. That means they can use more of their own energy reserves and not chase the polite fiction that buying energy from Putin is better than generating the energy reserves themselves. Trump KNOWS geopolitical business and is NOT bound by an ideology that yields bad economic results. Trump's goal is to produce for Americans. Yes, there are distractions along the way but Trump won't allow them to become the main purpose and will emphasize things that build American business and deemphasize things that weaken American business. He also knows that when Americans are personally successful, they can solve most of their own problems and not rely on government. Government doing less because Americans don't need it is a VERY healthy model and is sustainable.

A WW2-level invasion against Ukraine apartment buildings has failed to weaken the resolve of the people. Russia has devastated their military age population and have nothing to show for it. The only real teeth that Russia has is in its nuclear arsenal, which is probably not fully-functional at this point - but it only takes one. The only real winner will be America's defense industry but certainly not American taxpayers.

Russia has been making itself weaker and weaker for the last several years. A huge factor has been massive corruption in the military which had crooked officers buying substandard equipment and pocketing the extra money. They have failed at an invasion of a country a tiny fraction their size, and lost 600-700K men killed and wounded, 6000+ tanks destroyed, and nearly as many other armored vehicles destroyed. They have nearly emptied their vast Siberian storage yards for old soviet era tanks, fixing up old retired 1950s and 1960s and 1970s models and sending them to be destroyed, too. They have pulled out most of their old WW2 and cold war era artillery pieces and worn out the barrels on those, too. They cannot build new artillery barrels even 10% as fast as they are wearing them out. They have purchase millions of substandard artillery shells from North Korea because they have burned through most of their vast soviet hoard of stored cold war artillery shells, too. About 25-30% of their Black Sea Fleet ships are sunk, by a country that doesn't even have a navy. Yes, the Russian military have proven to be much more incompetent than thought, nearly exhausting themselves against an adversary a tiny fraction their size. But that nation is one which doesn't want to be enslaved once again by the Russian monsters who have enslaved them in the past.

FTA: "Turkey is now master of the region. Turkish forces had to step in to rescue stranded Russian generals. Even if Putin succeeds in holding on to his naval base at Tartus – a big if – this concession will be on Ottoman terms and sufferance." Apparently, the only thing that ended centuries of conflict between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire was both empires collapsing in WW1. Russia went communist and Turkey established a republic (under Ataturk, whether they wanted to or not). For Russia to be beholding to Turkey has GOT to be galling for Putin. This is history all Russians know, mainly since the Russians mostly came out as top dogs in their conflicts. (It's how Russia got Crimea in the first place.) Yeah, Putin having the Turks protect your generals and having to get their permission to hold on to your naval base - how's that restoring the Russian Empire working out for you?