Russia’s problems are truly not rooted in Russian acts of the last decades. It is not their fault that they did not spend excessively to prepare for a major conflict, 20th century style. The fault is with those Neanderthals who actually dreamed up this conflict in D.C. and Brussels. Russia recognized the new realities of being a regional power and acted accordingly. Putin cannot be blamed for not possessing the influence of global outreach after 1991 when Yetlsin cut up the Soviet Empire. Neither can Russia be blamed for retaining a giant territory filled with resources that make any New World Order freak drool just by looking at the map. It was the West that allowed the development of this giant freak-show and their population has to get their leadership in line if they still have a desire to survive.
I agree, but my point here is that the challenges that it's faced abroad and the resultant setbacks of the past year in particular aren't due to the special operation itself per se, but due to Western pressure exposing the systemic vulnerability that's been there all along with respect to "wishful thinking" still inordinately infecting policymakers' (already largely broken and thus mostly unviable) feedback loops.
In my personal assessment, it's this factor more so than anything else which led to everything reaching the extent that it has, and I do believe that its setbacks abroad might have been a bit less and more manageable had latent threats been properly identified in advanced, policymakers informed of their stakes without any sugarcoating, and corresponding policies formulated to try to avert these scenarios or at least mitigate them.
Instead, what we've seen in every instance is Russia arguably being caught off guard and left to pick up the pieces of the blows that the West has inflicted to some of its most sensitive foreign interests, especially those along its entire southern periphery in the South Caucasus and Central Asia via TRIPP. I still maintain that TRIPP is a game-changing development and one of the most serious setbacks to Russian interests since NATO's continued formal expansion eastward in Europe.
Russia is a giant with many internal problems. There is still significant corruption and a lot of mentality inherited from Soviet times, especially in military. It takes generations to change it. There is also a centuries old Russian (and East European) Fatalism. Russian people react slowly, but are able to endure a lot.
Russia would be a giant with a population of at least 300 millions inhabitants. With less than 150, it's a middle power with a huge territory, too huge for 150 millions inhabitants.
80% of Russians live west of Ural, essentially thanks to the resources laying at East of Ural.
Only 30 millions Russians live east of Ural in this huge and incredibly rich land. Siberia could welcome and make live more than a billion men, oil, gaz, mining, wood, water, arable lands.
In the western oligarchs point of view, Russians are like a kind of Sioux or Apache tribe.
I would say that Russian oligarchs relationship to Russians is like that of Latin American oligarchs to Latin Americans.
Wealthy Latin Americans see themselves as basically displaced Spaniards, Germans, Italians, Lebanese or Norteamericanos, and their subjects as being slightly better than livestock.
Reforms are an ongoing process. Ukrainian military is still corrupt and inept. The best units are the ultra-nationalist ones, which are not a product of reforms, but the ideology.
"Fault" doesn't matter. What matters is winning. It doesn't matter that it's not the mouse's fault that he strayed into the cat's path. He's still on the menu.
It is Putin's fault for not spending on the military and being ready for the obvious. Hes a fool.
" A commonly cited total for the Sochi Games — including all facilities built specifically for the Olympics and massive surrounding infrastructure — is about $50 billion to $55 billion USD. This figure often appears in official records and media accounts and makes Sochi the most expensive Olympics in history "
" Russia’s defense outlays have increased significantly since 2022, well above pre-war levels:
Begin, Russia is a nuclear SUPER POWER. No body would dare invade Russia or the Ukraine which Russia considers part of its territory. RUSSIANS & UKRAINIANS are identical in most everey way. Same DNA, Orthodox Religion, alfabet., every diay words are IDENTICAL !!! etc. Yes there are slight slight differences between those speaking Russian and the Galician people in wewstern Ukraine which got incorporated into Ukraine after WWI when the Russians crushed the Austro-Hungarien empire that included Galician Ukkraines. Please FOOLS leave Russia alone.
The war concentrated all posible ressources and attention, while undermining the status of Russia. Before 24th of Feb. Russia was considered 2. best military and thus was feared.
All those internation failues are not direct consequences, but rather they showe how weak Russia actually is
Russia’s problems are truly not rooted in Russian acts of the last decades. It is not their fault that they did not spend excessively to prepare for a major conflict, 20th century style. The fault is with those Neanderthals who actually dreamed up this conflict in D.C. and Brussels. Russia recognized the new realities of being a regional power and acted accordingly. Putin cannot be blamed for not possessing the influence of global outreach after 1991 when Yetlsin cut up the Soviet Empire. Neither can Russia be blamed for retaining a giant territory filled with resources that make any New World Order freak drool just by looking at the map. It was the West that allowed the development of this giant freak-show and their population has to get their leadership in line if they still have a desire to survive.
I agree, but my point here is that the challenges that it's faced abroad and the resultant setbacks of the past year in particular aren't due to the special operation itself per se, but due to Western pressure exposing the systemic vulnerability that's been there all along with respect to "wishful thinking" still inordinately infecting policymakers' (already largely broken and thus mostly unviable) feedback loops.
In my personal assessment, it's this factor more so than anything else which led to everything reaching the extent that it has, and I do believe that its setbacks abroad might have been a bit less and more manageable had latent threats been properly identified in advanced, policymakers informed of their stakes without any sugarcoating, and corresponding policies formulated to try to avert these scenarios or at least mitigate them.
Instead, what we've seen in every instance is Russia arguably being caught off guard and left to pick up the pieces of the blows that the West has inflicted to some of its most sensitive foreign interests, especially those along its entire southern periphery in the South Caucasus and Central Asia via TRIPP. I still maintain that TRIPP is a game-changing development and one of the most serious setbacks to Russian interests since NATO's continued formal expansion eastward in Europe.
Russia is a giant with many internal problems. There is still significant corruption and a lot of mentality inherited from Soviet times, especially in military. It takes generations to change it. There is also a centuries old Russian (and East European) Fatalism. Russian people react slowly, but are able to endure a lot.
Russia would be a giant with a population of at least 300 millions inhabitants. With less than 150, it's a middle power with a huge territory, too huge for 150 millions inhabitants.
80% of Russians live west of Ural, essentially thanks to the resources laying at East of Ural.
Only 30 millions Russians live east of Ural in this huge and incredibly rich land. Siberia could welcome and make live more than a billion men, oil, gaz, mining, wood, water, arable lands.
In the western oligarchs point of view, Russians are like a kind of Sioux or Apache tribe.
I would say that Russian oligarchs relationship to Russians is like that of Latin American oligarchs to Latin Americans.
Wealthy Latin Americans see themselves as basically displaced Spaniards, Germans, Italians, Lebanese or Norteamericanos, and their subjects as being slightly better than livestock.
So how was Ukraine able to reform its military so quickly?
Reforms are an ongoing process. Ukrainian military is still corrupt and inept. The best units are the ultra-nationalist ones, which are not a product of reforms, but the ideology.
"Fault" doesn't matter. What matters is winning. It doesn't matter that it's not the mouse's fault that he strayed into the cat's path. He's still on the menu.
It is Putin's fault for not spending on the military and being ready for the obvious. Hes a fool.
" A commonly cited total for the Sochi Games — including all facilities built specifically for the Olympics and massive surrounding infrastructure — is about $50 billion to $55 billion USD. This figure often appears in official records and media accounts and makes Sochi the most expensive Olympics in history "
" Russia’s defense outlays have increased significantly since 2022, well above pre-war levels:
2022: ~$86 billion
2023: ~$109 billion
2024: ~$112 billion
2025: ~$140 billion+ (projected "
Begin, Russia is a nuclear SUPER POWER. No body would dare invade Russia or the Ukraine which Russia considers part of its territory. RUSSIANS & UKRAINIANS are identical in most everey way. Same DNA, Orthodox Religion, alfabet., every diay words are IDENTICAL !!! etc. Yes there are slight slight differences between those speaking Russian and the Galician people in wewstern Ukraine which got incorporated into Ukraine after WWI when the Russians crushed the Austro-Hungarien empire that included Galician Ukkraines. Please FOOLS leave Russia alone.
The war concentrated all posible ressources and attention, while undermining the status of Russia. Before 24th of Feb. Russia was considered 2. best military and thus was feared.
All those internation failues are not direct consequences, but rather they showe how weak Russia actually is
Russian dithering and indecision in Ukraine simply encourage the West to push harder.
To give one example - before 2022, declaring open piracy on ship carrying Russian cargos would have been insane. Today, well, here we are.
I thinks Putin end oligarch stil problem for Russia . Russian government is not from Slavic origin.
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