Makes you wonder if Putin has been reluctant to overspend on the military for the past 20 years, due to the Soviet's military budget imploding the government. I'm a little surprised at their dilapidated stock, but there's been a revenue stream there. It just hasn't been siphoned by the military the way it was in the Soviet days. You would think Putin would have a near state of the art military force, but it's embarrassing what they're using.
That’s a very strange thing to write if you’ve been paying attention to Russia since Putin took power. One of the key characteristics of his regime has been increased military spending and rebuilding Russia’s armed forces since the humiliation of the First Chechen War. So we know they spent the money. The better question then would be, where did all of that money actually go? Dachas? High-end prostitution? Fast cars?
Western spending on Ukraine defense exceeds Russia’s military budget. Yet somehow Russia is in the process of destroying Ukraine’s weaponry a second time around. Beats me how. They’ve been out of missiles since March. All of their tanks are out of commission. And they’ve lost more troops than they’ve inserted in theatre. I still think it’s wolverines.
It wasn’t increased military spending if it went to prostitution was it? A lot of corruption there, so money falling in the wrong hands is certainly plausible.
Putin pretty much solved his oligarch problem. Presently, money falling into the wrong hands defines the black hole that is Ukraine.
There has long been fat in the American defense budget, but at least our 200 dollar hammers work. lol
A bone for hungry dogs ... The BBC claims to have confirmed 9,331 Russian military deaths. This includes combat troops and their equivalent of our national guard ...
The Ukrainian government count is 11,461 childrenknown by name and taken without families to Russia or Russian-controlled areas. President Volodymyr Zelensky told the G20 summit that there are “tens of thousands” more who are known about only indirectly or with less detail. “He was kidnapped,” she told me. “He was taken forcibly.” Opinion | Russia Traffics in Ukrainian Children
good news on Russian economy. Its decline is continuing. It didn’t drop as fast as originally expected but now looking more dire. “For months, Putin claimed that the “economic blitzkrieg” against Russia had failed, but Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine are digging ever deeper into Russia’s economy, exacerbating equipment shortages for its army and hampering its ability to launch any new ground offensive or build new missiles, economists and Russian business executives said.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/26/russia-war-economy-military-supply/
Russia is out of missiles. But when it has them they’re all shot down. Simultaneously, the entire Ukraine energy grid is exploding.
At some point, if you’re the dictator of a once world superpower, you’re making sure those billions of rubles are being spent on actual military hardware. Unless Putin is a bumbling idiot when it comes to building a military. This is a nation which closely censors its media, rigs its elections and has a vast spying network within its borders. Surely he had enough control to make sure rubles were being spent on actual military. But I digress as I know the corruption there runs deep.
Saw a map last night on CNN. Has Ukraine actually begun a counteroffensive on the ground in Crimea? The map made it seem like they have. I can’t find anything about it online.
Seems that your friends in Russia may be repurposing some of their missiles. Ukraine war latest: Russia 'removing nuclear warheads from old missiles' and launching them at Ukraine, MoD says
They’re bound to run out some day ... 320 missiles in a day: Russia targets short-range ballistic missiles at Ukraine; what is the result? - WION - Mar 2, 2022 Russia running short on guided missiles, firing indiscriminately - Ukraine - Jerusalem Post - March 17, 2022 Russia Running Out of Precision Munitions in Ukraine War Pentagon Official - US News - Mar 24, 2022 Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials - Financial Times - Apr 29, 2022 SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV - Sun - May 5, 2022 Putin ‘running out of missiles’ amid claims quarter of Russian Army now lost- City A.M. - May 6, 2022 Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages - Jerusalem Post - May 16, 2022 Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles? - Moscow Times - May 17, 2022 Has Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Missiles? - SOFREP - May 23, 2022 Russia ‘running out’ of precision weapons - UK Defense Journal - Jun 11, 2022 Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says - Daily Mail- Jun 12, 2022 Vladimir Putin running short of missiles as Russian forces turn to old weaponry stock - Mirror - Jul 8, 2022 Putin left scratching head as Russia RUNS OUT of missiles to make ground attacks - Express - Jul 23, 2022 Will Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Munitions? - National Interest - Aug 11, 2022 Russia Has Run Out of Long-Range Missiles to Terrorize Ukraine - !945 - Aug 20, 2022 No more than 45% missiles that Russia had before the war remain Chief Directorate of Intelligence - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 27, 2022 Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’ - The New Voice of Ukraine / Yahoo - Aug 27, 2022 Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Russia Is Running Low On Missiles - The Drive - Aug 27, 2022 Russian Federation will run out of shells, artillery and armoured vehicles by year end - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 31, 2022 Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report - Newsweek - Aug 31, 2022 Russia Is Running Out of Missiles. That’s Bad News for Ukraine - Defense Post - Sep 1, 2022 Alexander Kovalenko: when Russia will critically run out of missiles - Odessa Journal - Sep 2, 2022 Russia Resorting to Out of Date Missiles as Weapon Stocks Run Low: Ukraine - Newsweek- Sep 4, 2022 Ukraine believes Russia has less than 50 hypersonic missiles left because it can't get the chips needed to make more: report - Business Insider - Sep 6, 2022 Out Of Missiles! Russia Is Left With ‘Limited Stock’ Of Hypersonic Weapons Due To Microchip Shortage – Ukraine - Eurasian Times- Sep 7, 2022
