Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

Mr. Prigozhin is lost. If I don’t know where he is than it is possible that nobody else does
 
Still, I found this article very interesting:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wagner-coup-j...44991.html
 
Russia as a state may be on the path of disintegration with endless power struggles between the Mafia, the oligarchs, the state itself and the silenced / brainwashed population itself. I’ve also done some reading about the poor morale of troops, their 2 weeks training (how do you train a soldier in two weeks?) and their intoxicated commanders giving them completely irrational orders. They are recruiting people in prisons to join the war effort as “workers” than they send these people as meat toward the better equipped Ukrainian Army.
 
This “autocratic model” that seemed to have gained a lot of momentum in the previous decade seems to be disintegrating now. Western nations are taking action against China to decrease their dependence on Chinese products + they are blocking the export of semiconductors and other high-tech products toward China and China seems to be counter acting by blocking the export of raw materials like Gallium and Germanium (that are key ingredients for the production of batteries and solar panels etc). But the main issue with China is their absolutely horrible ecological situation. U.S. + European products are expensive because:
- Workers are paid more fairly
- They need to meet high (although not enough) ecological standards
- If their produce low emission cars and these car are found to not meet these ecological criteria they are put on trial and have to answer for their fraud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen...ns_scandal)
- The supply chain of most western companies cannot include child labor, slave labor, environmentally unsustainable raw materials etc. (We are not there yet, but the E.U. is currently getting more and more serious about these issue).
 
   So as a whole this “autocratic model” is not even a model and the Reason why Xi Chi Ping is working so hard to strengthen his authority is because he is actually struggling to keep that ship floating somehow. But this cannot go on forever. One of the reasons for this is the catastrophic environmental impact of the Chinese industrialization on the environment. Their rivers, underground waters, seas, soils, etc are all contaminated and polluted and this pollution is increasing not decreasing. (in 2022 they were building a coal plant every second day). So while they are doing some greenwashing with their electrical vehicles and solar panels, they are absolutely uncaring about the environment and have next to zero environmental standards. SO they are likely to become a second version of the Soviet Union. Meaning a highly industrialized nation that lacks food / water / clean air etc.
 
So I think this is set to be their main challenge. Yes, they are set to catch up with the West in almost all areas, but No, with no standards to protect the climate, the soil, the waters, the soils, underground waters, rivers etc… they won’t be able to feed themselves or even live in that country. (I’ve also read that the temperature is Beijing is currently exceeding the 100 degree mark / exceeding the previous heat records).
 
And this is related to Ukraine because if there is a clash between two social models (as it is being claimed by the Russian disinformation etc.) than the second model of society is not really in a good position to win this confrontation.
 
So this war is meaningless. So if I was Zellensky I would tell the emperor of the eastern-orthodoxy to go and tell that to Mr. Putin. That’s my opinion that