Let’s start with the Russian flagship. You can find it at the bottom of the Black Sea. And about the rest of the superior Russian navy and the formidable Russian air force, you can’t find it. It’s all the result of the Russian propaganda. So, if you’re wondering where they all are? Nowhere. What happened to them? Nothing. They were never there.
For 50 years, nothing has happened to the Russian armed forces. It’s all one big bluff, one big scam. But what did happen during those 50 years was that the Russians were able for several times to steal technology from the Europeans and Americans, just like the Iranians and Chinese did.
And what they all did with that knowledge? They sometimes managed to make some poor copies of the originals, that’s all. And of course the nice painted pictures on it. And of course, rigging the specifications too.
The disastrous military campaign or its Russian invasion into Ukraine showed very clearly that Russia never caught up with the west. The western advancement and superiority clearly showed itself compared with what Russia had demonstrated.
Those Russian so-called 5th generation warplanes turned out to be 4th generation airplanes, and not even that good compared with the western counterparts.
The western powers have been developing superior weapons while the Russians have been copying filched weapons that, by the time they are brought back to Russia, are likely already dated. The Russian military understood in 1989 that it could not keep up with the west in such endeavors as machining parts, and apparently it understands today that the situation still has not changed. The simple fact is that the free-market system, working in a free society, is more innovative and productive than the statism of Russia.
Gen. Nikolai Ogarkov, chief of the Soviet General Staff, predicted that “long-range, highly accurate, terminally guided combat systems, unmanned flying machines and qualitatively new electronic control systems” were on the horizon. And he was of course right.
The Iranians stole loads of technologies, including the motherboards (with the original chips produced by the US) and added them into their drones, which they promptly managed to sell to the Russians. And the Iranians … and the Russians and Chinese don’t have such technologies to develop and produce those chips.
So, the Russian President Vladimir Putin is in some serious trouble. His – oh so – ‘powerful and invincible’ army doesn’t have enough firepower at the moment to stop the advancement of the Ukrainian army, more and more Russian fighting units are surrendering to the Ukrainians, and he’s powerless to do anything about it. Above all of that, he is also the biggest suppliers of the heavy weapons of the Ukrainian armed forces.
His genius plan of a ‘partial’ mobilization is also not working. It triggered about a million Russian military-aged men to fly from Russia, it triggered also the expanded unrest at home, it triggered a screaming outrage from the Russian hardliners and the new (badly trained) mobalized units can’t be transferred to the much-needed front lines, because the Ukrainian advancements are much faster than the Russians can resupply.
And if that’s not suffering enough for the pride of Putin, his ‘official’ land-grab is also not working, because the areas he claims as his are not even fully conquered. Worse, the Ukrainians advanced their counteroffensive on multiple fronts and Putin’s claimed territories are being recaptured by the Ukrainians and his forces are starting to go on a run direction Russia.
The Americans had their own military disasters, like the last Afghanistan flight. Now the Russians have one. The reason why there were such disasters was because both of them were micromanaged by their regimes and/or leaders.
Back to glorious Russia, Putin is using other means too, to rage ‘war’ against his opponents, especially against Europe and the US. Thanks to the ineptness of Europe and especially the US with Biden as his president, he could score some points there.
Europe and the US had a ‘genius’ plan to stop buying Russian oil and gas, without having a working alternative in place!!!!!!!! Both of the ignorants (Europe and US) volunteered what Putin could have done as a response to the western sanctions. Europe depended on 40% of their total energy on Russia, and they threw it away.
And guess what was the result of this enormous stupidity? Right now, Europe and the US are in a self-inflicted major energy crisis. And it comes at the worst time for the ignorants, because they’re in the situation of their forced transition from fossil to green energy, closing down their nuclear- and fossil running energy plants.
Together with the self-inflicted inflation and economical downfall, the US and Europe are in deep trouble. Putin only smiled and shutdown (at the request of the two ignorants) the stream of oil and gas. At the very least, that’s working just fine for Putin.
But what now?
Putin is in trouble and this only becomes worse by the day. His survival is at risk, not only his political survival, but his own life as well.
But the US and Europe are also at risk. The rapidly expanding energy crisis triggers multiple crises, like a rolling snowball rolling uncontrolled from a steep hill. This is fast becoming a set of catastrophic events, which might bring down both ignorants (Europe and the US).
What can we see happen this coming winter?
Putin will be even more in trouble. It’s very good possible that (parts of the) Russian army collapses in Ukraine. Winter in Ukraine is some serious business!
And then we have the US. Beginning November, we see the midterm elections. If logic prevails, and looking at the terrible mismanagement of the US, we’ll see landsliding victories of the conservatives in the Senate and House of Representatives, isolating the current president Biden. If not, then the American conservatives might get a majority in the House of Representatives and maybe some seats in the Senate. The conservative are unlikely to lose the coming midterm elections.
In both of those situations, it might influence the material support to Ukraine. And it’s very likely that Biden will be stopped with his insane policies.
Europe will not be so lucky. They’ll have to deal with the snowball effects of their energy crisis, which means that a large amount of people will freeze to death, and it’ll trigger social unrest, economical-, financial-, communication-, transport- and food crises throughout Europe, which will also trigger the expected exploding growth of populism and right-winged governments, threaten the EC itself.
Europe will enjoy the grandmother of all crises. The ‘worst of all‘, for the Europeans, they’ll not be able (or sporadically) to access the internet. Can you imagine!? No porn websites anymore for the Europeans.
This article is a part of the summary of an official report to a private customer(s). I removed all statistical information, as references to the customer(s).
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