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What is In Store for Russia?

Never Russia’s goal

Russia's bloody and senseless war against Ukraine has been going on for almost six months. Instead of the original goal of quickly seizing Ukraine and turning it into a puppet state or a province (the name "Ukraine" is derived from the Russian word for “outskirts"), Russia has suddenly encountered an impenetrable wall of resistance.

Who says that?

Hence the popular Russian saying: "There are only two problems in Russia: bad roads and fools, where the fools tell people which road to take.”

Russian subway

American subway.

Or this?

A slave does not want freedom, a slave wants others to become slaves — this miserable idea is engrained into the flesh and blood of the Russian people. They are very tolerant, obedient and ready for endless deprivation and suffering — if only "not to get worse." For its ability to tolerate any misery, Russia cannot be defeated from the outside, especially since it has nuclear weapons. The good news is that under certain circumstances (as discussed below) it can slowly decay from within, dying on its own without external force.

Which would you rather have?

See this article for examples of what Russia makes.

Today, Russia produces no manufactured goods (except old-fashioned weapons) and is completely dependent on the import of end products.

Old fashioned weapons A?

Which country provides us with rides to space?

Umm what country is supporting the Nazis and which one is eliminating them? And that’s because it is a special military operation and not the full strength of Russia’s military.

Of course, there is always a small number of active selfless people who want change, but their activity under the Soviet rule and in our time has been brutally suppressed with the silent approval of the masses. The level of repression under Putin can only be compared to that of Nazi Germany. For example, the invasion of Ukraine is ordered to be called a "special operation," and anyone who uses the word "war" is arrested and sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

Xenophobic much?

Several years ago I was invited to give a lecture on modern electronics at a Russian university, my alma mater. During my presentation I noticed the total indifference of the students: no one took notes, they yawned, looked not at the slides, but at the ceiling, etc. After the lecture, everyone left without asking a single question — and these were the grad students from the radio-electronics department! I asked my friend, the head of the department: “Weren't they interested? Maybe they didn't understand?”

America is still trying to get its hypersonic missile to work while Russia has had them for years.

They laughed: “What retirement? The authorities don't let us retire. We work at the military plants that still produce weapons developed in the 60's and 70's of the last century. We know the designs in and out, so we can maintain the production, but there's nobody to replace us…”

After the collapse of the USSR, tens of thousands of highly qualified specialists left the country forever and now the scientific and technical level in Russia is extremely low. The Russian propaganda about "hypersonic” rockets, "nuclear-powered" airplanes, and other fantasy projects is nothing more than fairy tales to be fed to its own naïve population. Russia has lagged behind other developed countries by at least half a century and there is not the slightest chance of catching up.

Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine with outdated weapons, 50-60 years old, whose effectiveness is not comparable to those supplied by the US, U.K. and other countries. Nevertheless, they have a huge stockpile of the old-fashioned weapons, and until it runs out, Russia will fight…..

I wonder why he left out China?

Yet, it won't work like that this time: no American lend-lease, no powerful allies. India, Iran, or North Korea don't count. Quantity will not trump quality!

See this article on Russia’s drones t that are destroying the equipment we’ve sent Ukraine and killing their troops. Watch the 2 videos in it.

He says that he visited Russia a few years ago and he must have kept his eyes shut.

If cars disappear from the market, Russians will ride horse-drawn carts. If there are no smartphones, they will use landlines. If wires disappear and there is no paper for letters, they will write on birch bark, like 500 years ago — if only "not to get worse." Alas, "worse" for this people has no limit. The Russian people will tolerate anything and swallow any propaganda garbage.

Dude buy a mirror!

Under Putin, instead of Marxism, a militaristic ideology based on megalomania has been adopted: "We are the strongest, the most spiritual, the most invincible, everyone is afraid of us!" The country launched mass military hysteria at all levels, from kindergartens to universities.

And look into it.

However, this could not go on indefinitely; the intense militaristic heat grew and demanded a vent — Russia needed an enemy which could be attacked and defeated with impunity "with little blood and on foreign soil" (the same slogan as Stalin propaganda used before WW2). The role of the enemy was assigned to Ukraine, the hatred for which Russian propaganda furiously and unabashedly built up after the seizure of Crimea in 2014. As soon as Covid was removed from the agenda, war with Ukraine became inevitable.

I suggest he reads the goals of the special military operation. And I guess he hasn’t noticed how much land Russia currently occupies there.

When the "blitzkrieg" that began on February 24, 2022, completely failed, the purpose for the war urgently had to be modified; now the purpose of the war is the war itself. No longer does Russia need to conquer Donbass or Kiev. — all it needs now is a permanent war.

Seems like the sanctions have backfired on the ones that put them on Russia.

Their situation is utterly hopeless — even in the event of a hypothetical victory over Ukraine, Russia will inevitably collapse, for being under sanctions, its economy will not be able to support occupation of the second largest geographical European country.

Another shocking day in European gas / power:

Dutch TTF nat gas jumps to €295 per MWh (that's almost $500 per barrel of oil equivalent)

And record prices in the benchmark 1-year forward electricity market. France (chart) surges >€800 per MWh and Germany rises >€700 per MWh pic.twitter.com/I5NmmVyNy6

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) August 22, 2022

Yep Russia’s economy is going to collapse.

MAP OF THE DAY: Day-ahead electricity prices in Europe are eye-watering, with lots of countries setting record highs for today. Notable to see the Nordics close to €400 per MWh, and Germany at €600. Before 2020, anything above €75-100 was considered expensive| #EnergyCrisis pic.twitter.com/RyTrbJ4Mxl

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) August 23, 2022

The weapons that are either being blown up or sold on the black market?

The war can come to an end only with a complete victory for Ukraine and the end of Putin. I mean the physical end of him. During the entire history of Russia and the USSR, with few exceptions, their leaders have not died peacefully in their beds. Their end typically was violent.

When might this happen to Putin? I am not Nostradamus able to predict the future, but based on what we roughly know about Russia's weapons reserves, its ability to recruit soldiers, and the rate of which Ukraine is accumulating advanced precision weapons, it seems to me that the end of Putin and his regime, with a complete expulsion from the Ukrainian territory, could occur by about the summer of 2023.

I guess his ears are only painted on since many people in government has said that they want Russia defeated and Putin overthrown.

No one is interested in conquering Russia and no one will forcibly reeducate the Russian people. They must do it themselves. Without the external pressure, a self-reeducation may be much longer than 40 years. The bitter path of decay and disintegration and then repentance may take as long as a century. In the future, Russia (if that name is kept) will inevitably have to be reborn on its own, so that the slave genotype disappears and a new freedom-loving and civilized nation emerges. Let us hope so.

I’d love to know why he wrote this and who his target audience is, but I know that plenty of will nod along whilst reading this because they have no idea why Russia started its special military operation after trying for more than 3 decades to get America from encroaching on its borders and asking France and Germany to get Ukraine to uphold the Minsk agreement all to no avail.

This operation didn’t need to happen and could have been easily avoided if Biden’s handlers had sat down and talked with Russia about their valid security concerns. Instead tens of thousands of Ukrainians are dead and many more are wounded and lots of the infrastructure and buildings have been destroyed. Meanwhile congress is pulling money out of thin air to give to defense companies while more Americans are struggling with having enough money to make it to the end of the month. More people are becoming homeless and many more will suffer because Biden and democrats refuse to even throw them some hope that things will get better. The parasite class gets to keep their Trump tax cuts that democrats promised to rollback and all the things that they promised the poor couldn’t find enough democrats to support. Phew it’s good that Biden is the next FDR huh? Imagine if he had continued working against we the people like he has ever since he got elected 50 years ago. But unfortunately shitlibs have no idea what’s in the bill or have any idea how bad it is for we the people.

As for propaganda how many here thought that we alone won WW2?