RE: Russia and Ukraine
8 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 8 hours ago by The Grand Nudger.)
Just six more months...as opposed to the last couple years of russian inevitably and impending ukranian doom? Russo-Ukranian War 2014-Present. Putin remains a master strategist.
Meanwhile, in ukraine, another 1100 russians rolled snake eyes today as the price of urals crude dips well below breakeven. The war budget depends on 69.7USD, cost is 40-44usd, current price is 35-36usd. China is throwing out the life preserver with a massive purchase in reserve gold. The bill stands somewhere in the vicinity of a quarter bil a day. It could be as high as half a bil a day, but that assumes russia pays it's soldiers..which we know, from russian soldiers and their survivors, it does not. As a cost cutting strategy it's working out well. Assault unit troops have a lifespan measured in hours, so you don't have to delay their pay very long before they're dead and not complaining. It is, ofc, illegal to say this in russia.
It's worth pointing out that the russian fed is not the soviet union. They do not have the technological prowess, the money, the productivity, or the raw demographics. The russian fed has never fought a war of attrition - so they cannot have any track record at winning them, nor have they ever faced a peer or near peer opponent. It is still not fighting one now. It is and has long been in russias best interest to retreat now, rebuild, address the issues the russo ukranian conflict has surfaced, and violate their treaty agreements at whatever later date is more convenient for them.
Meanwhile, in ukraine, another 1100 russians rolled snake eyes today as the price of urals crude dips well below breakeven. The war budget depends on 69.7USD, cost is 40-44usd, current price is 35-36usd. China is throwing out the life preserver with a massive purchase in reserve gold. The bill stands somewhere in the vicinity of a quarter bil a day. It could be as high as half a bil a day, but that assumes russia pays it's soldiers..which we know, from russian soldiers and their survivors, it does not. As a cost cutting strategy it's working out well. Assault unit troops have a lifespan measured in hours, so you don't have to delay their pay very long before they're dead and not complaining. It is, ofc, illegal to say this in russia.
It's worth pointing out that the russian fed is not the soviet union. They do not have the technological prowess, the money, the productivity, or the raw demographics. The russian fed has never fought a war of attrition - so they cannot have any track record at winning them, nor have they ever faced a peer or near peer opponent. It is still not fighting one now. It is and has long been in russias best interest to retreat now, rebuild, address the issues the russo ukranian conflict has surfaced, and violate their treaty agreements at whatever later date is more convenient for them.
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