After seeing Perun’s video on how the Russian war economy is actually doing well, with the biggest limitation being a lack of bodies to fulfill all the jobs, it seems Putin stumbled into a probable stable future built on using human bodies as fuel for his money machine. There may come a point where Ukraine quits the fight, regardless of the outcome, and Russia’s economy collapses.

Fuck yeah. Now do one with a payload.

China wants to work with the Russian Navy? The same Navy that is being beaten by a country without a navy? The same Russia that no longer has a working carrier and who lost their biggest ship, a missile cruiser, to drones? China is going to be doing all the work.

He may be resisting using UAVs and FPVs inside Russia. There has been a tremendous amount of moment shifted by the last month of deep strike inside Russia. If he was trying to slow that down, it could be a sign of subversion.

Who’s buying? Cause they are getting a hell of a deal.

You trust Modi? He’s been a snake in the grass for a decade now. He is India’s fascist, pro-religious genocide leader. He’s playing both sides because he thinks as long as he can maintain balance between both sides he can get stuff like free oil and trade concessions with the West.

They are

I’m digging this concerted effort for Ukrainian leadership to wear green T shirts. If this keeps up, it will be one of the first piece of cultural clothing to be casual wear.

Convert it to rubles, cut the price of materiel to cost, and the end result is a bit more than that. However, Russia started this SMO with rewards and bonuses given out like the country was a tech stock at an IPO. Now they have to pay out those bonuses since it’s been 2 years and they haven’t managed to kill off every single enlisted schmuck. They are also continuing to entice more from other countries with strong currencies, requiring more signing bonus money.

Oh, and Wagner suffered some big losses this year and that will need to be patched up with whatever talent and vehicles are available. Frankly, Putin has a lot of big bills and every bit of other people’s money counts.

Orban starts sweating

Russia has proven that it can’t protect weak points because the entire military is a weak point. Can’t wait to see the military parade in May.

Was it orcas? Are orcas going to start the revolution by violently suppressing the bourgeoisie?

Imagine driving the country of Stalin into the ground and longingly looking back at the folden period of the country as that time between the purge and nukes. You know, under Stalin. Those were the good times…

The best way to destabilize authoritarian governments is to stop having children. Without the potential for infinite growth on the backs of the underpaid, the business class will have to be generous with compensation and down right responsible for the people working for them.

The next round should be air dropped from the AFU.

Joe has always been a talk show host who thought he was funny enough to be a comedian.

WHERE CAN I GET THAT APR

Sanctions work.

Look at that, a fantastic find! Even if Sudzha is retaken, the knowledge of Russian anti-drone tech is now revealed. And it’s so stupid. Like, is Russia undergoing an active internal rebellion to help make things worse? Because it’s hard to imagine any effort being so constantly countered - and so effectively!

The AFU is very selective in what it is targeting and the initial attack was to limit Russian gas exports and starve them of money. Sudzha is exactly the point that they needed to hold to do that and they did it with surprisingly low number of troops. Russia still has to move troops into the area and the quality that they are sending means there is little expected chance of escalation for now. There is minimal air and ground assets being assigned to that front, as they are scattered across multiple other fronts in Ukraine.