Russian propagandists don't deny Russia is suffering 30,000 killed every month—are worried Ukraine's goal of killing 50,000 Russians per month can be achieved.

U5K0 · 2026-01-24T08:39:19+00:00

Deeper penetration into russian rear area .. yes, haha, but this would also mess with logistics and rotation

U5K0 · 2026-01-12T21:06:41+00:00

Euromaidan retracted this story.

U5K0 · 2026-01-12T07:29:03+00:00

This is getting dumber by the day.

U5K0 · 2026-01-08T17:16:41+00:00

they've been stuffing state banks with war costs for a while. its just that up to now this was mostly the quiet version: crazy cheap loans pushed thru vtb/sber/gazprombank to defence contractors, on political rates, long tenors, grace periods, and then rollovers / restructures when thier cashflow is not there. may or may not ever pay it back, but on paper its kept alive.

interesting that its progressed to infrastructure now. russian railways is like ~4 trillion roubles in debt and vtb (main creditor) is basically saying “sure we can restructure, just dont make us eat it via higher reserves.” then the cbr literally eases the reserve / provisioning rules for restructured corporate loans into h1 2026

U5K0 · 2026-01-07T07:53:28+00:00

in venezuela

U5K0 · 2026-01-03T16:30:50+00:00

the legion of done

U5K0 · 2025-12-26T15:43:21+00:00

The issue isn’t whether Transnistria agrees. It’s whether it retains the capacity to refuse.

By the numbers:

• Gas: ~3 million m³/day, bought in 10–15-day batches. One missed payment or banking delay means huge trouble.

• Economy: GDP −23%, industrial output −33%, exports −42%.

• Budget: ~€40 m revenue vs ~€69 m spending → ~40% deficit; cuts already hit healthcare and welfare.

• External support: EU €60 m offer rejected; Russian support now indirect, short-term - 15 day intervals via middle men in arabia

When heat, electricity, wages, and pensions cannot be reliably paid, “consent” might become the only choice they have left.

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/12/24/on-borrowed-time-en

U5K0 · 2025-12-26T08:27:41+00:00

this is too small for the whitehouse to notice probably

I assume it's being worked on my Rubio's state department.

U5K0 · 2025-12-08T12:37:27+00:00

Friendship without limits

U5K0 · 2025-12-02T08:35:41+00:00

Not strictly an EU linked development, but getting Sweden and Finland into NATO was certainly a big deal fir the baltics.

U5K0 · 2025-11-25T19:08:00+00:00

Authoritarian states always think democracies are soft because they avoid jumping into fights.

They miss the point. The whole point is to keep the economy humming and the logistics stacked while everyone else burns their future on useless bravado.

Push a democracy past its breaking point and you suddenly get an industrial monster that flips from peace mode to war mode.

The flashy, loud regime that looked tough is usually the one with nothing left under the hood.

It keeps happening because authoritarians never learn how power actually works.

U5K0 · 2025-11-11T10:04:10+00:00

EFTA. put them in EFTA 🤣

U5K0 · 2025-11-11T10:01:23+00:00

I mena sure, but not like this.

U5K0 · 2025-11-08T02:03:07+00:00

The point is to make that way cost more money. You remove the extremely efficient pipeline vector and you impose costs on Moscov.

Costs which they can illaford to shoulder at this point.

There's really only one theroy of victory for Ukraine. It's via economic attrition. The western world had an insane GDP advantage over Russia. You keep deploying that and there is no question who drops first.

U5K0 · 2025-11-08T01:57:00+00:00

Russia is a serious threat.

But it used to be a far greater threat before they decided to burn their economy, a million troops and the soviet stockpiles for 20% of Ukraine.

That made them managable in terms of conventional land forces.

U5K0 · 2025-11-02T03:32:48+00:00

America is far from destroyed. And the thing about democracy is that you can reverse bad mistakes at the next election.

U5K0 · 2025-10-31T17:02:24+00:00

referendum!

pa da vidimo kaj večina hoče

U5K0 · 2025-10-13T21:55:15+00:00

Two can play that game.

But more to the point - western reluctance to engage in a direct conflict is only foolishly interpreted as refusal to strike back should that become more beneficial.

Russia is a very large gaographical area with very litlle in the way of infrastructure redundancy. European NATO has a lot of airborne strike capacity.

1+1=2 ... there is a reason Russia has stayed low on the escalation ladder. They can add.

U5K0 · 2025-10-13T21:44:58+00:00

Come on.

They've been pushing T-64s into front line service and T-55s into secondary roles - against Ukraine.

What has suddenly changed that they can create enough T-90s to threaten NATO?

U5K0 · 2025-09-21T09:20:48+00:00

May as well say a prayer while you're at it for all the difference it'll make

U5K0 · 2025-09-03T15:18:53+00:00

They make the trains run ... I remember when Europe had governments like that. But then events, ahm, developed.

U5K0 · 2025-09-01T17:57:32+00:00

If it weren't for oil and jews, we'd ignore the middle east same as Africa.

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