Meanwhile, normies on my Facebook page think Russia is running out of ammo and has to procure it from North Korea. These people will be livid when Russia is finally done with Ukraine…
We have been told for the last year or so that Russia is running out of stocks of everything and then it always turns out to be false hope.
Ramps up the production of rockets…
As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.
Russia subverted American export controls using its intelligence services and ministry of defense to run illicit networks of people who smuggle key components by exporting them to other countries from which they can be shipped to Russia more easily.
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Officials fear that increased missile stocks could mean an especially dark and cold winter for Ukrainian citizens.
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Russia adapted quickly with its own efforts to secure supplies of the needed parts.
Today, Russian officials have remade their economy to focus on defense production. With revenue from high energy prices, Russia’s security services and ministry of defense have been able to smuggle in the microelectronics and other Western materials required for cruise missiles and other precision guided weaponry. As a result, military production has not only recovered but surged.
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As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.
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In cases where Russia needs millions of one particular component, export controls can grind production to a halt. But the chips needed to make a couple of hundred cruise missiles would fit into a few backpacks, which makes evading sanctions relatively simple…
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Listen up Russophobic dog farts, Russia will always find a way…
Guenther is an Austrian lobbyist for NATO. Austria is not a NATO country but it has a defensive treaty with my country that is in NATO. Austria in NATO is kinda redundant…
Guenther has a tendency to create funny maps of dismembered countries that threaten NATO and Western hegemony in his opinion.
But then other countries began being naughty…
Then came a thing called BRICS:
The people on Twitter have brought up responses to Guenther…
Funny that Guenther is an Austrian. I have called the Ukrainian nationalism “Austrian voodoo”. Ukrainian nationalism is a result of a successful policy of the Austrian government to promote disunity among the Russians and neutralize the Russian threat.
Sure, why deprive yourself of a market of 150 million people just to help some thieves in Ukraine?
Africa is a dark continent in that it is not interesting for the mainstream media. Nobody gives a fuck about what happens in Africa. But is Russia really trying to kick the French out of Africa for good?
From Wikipedia:
thousands of pro-coup Nigeriens gathered in Niamey’s Place de la Concertation, in front of the National Assembly, and went to the French Embassy carrying Nigerien and Russian flags, with slogans such as “Down with France, out with Barkhane, we don’t care about ECOWAS, the European Union and the African Union!”, “Arrest the former dignitaries to return the stolen millions.”, and “Down with France, long live Putin!”.[48][49][50] The demonstrators also called for an immediate intervention by the Wagner Group.[49]
2023 Nigerien coup d’état
Similar story is with other EU countries…
The new Finnish government of the prime minister, Petteri Orpo published a new program intended to balance the Finnish economy in the time of crisis, the fall of industrial production, and the militarization of the country. NATO accession is an expensive pleasure that one needs to pay for.
The former government, headed by Sanna Marin (edit: her name sounds like some canned tuna brand) was forced markedly increase its military spending in order to become a member of NATO, the main article was the purchase of F 35 fighter jets.
Right with the news about Finland’s rapid accession, there was the information about the defens expenses being doubled in the upcoming year. Alongside receiving American armaments, the Finns have also agreed to release funds for the support of the administrative apparatus of NATO, to increase the military contingent two times, and also build a barrier on the border with Russia.
In the past, the Finnish government thought the Finnish economy would manage to cover the expenses without cuts to other budgetary expenses.
However, the fall of Finnish GDP has forced the new government to announce cuts to the social sphere. The Finnish government is looking at completely scrapping the living subsidy. And in the future, the conditions under which government assistance can be received will harden.
Meanwhile according to the University of Helsinki professor, Niko Määttä, because of the growth of budget expenses of the government of Sanna Marin, the government debt reached 146 billion euros. This deficit will be paid by several future governments of the country.
The new prime minister, Orpo said that the current state of the Finnish economy has turned out to be much worse than was previously thought.
Without significant cuts to the budget, Finland cannot do right now.
News of Estonia
The president signed laws about the increase of and licence payments. Subsidies to families will be cut. And the equality of same sex marriages.
So more taxes and anal sex, enjoy!!!
For many years number of Russians were bemoaning the fact their moneyed class was investing the money made in Russia into real estate and football clubs in the West.
Source (behind a paywall)
From the article:
The Western sanctions got one thing fundamentally wrong, they assumed the relationship the West has with Russia is not only essential but beneficial for the Russians, and the Russians cannot do without it. Nothing can be further from the truth, Russia develops in an opposition to the West, not as its resource appendage.
PS: I have covered the issue of sanctions against wealthy Russian nationals before. But in that case it was legacy oligarchs that moved their assets to the United Kingdom, only to be robbed.
Should Ukraine threaten any of these territories, Limited intervention of Russia to destroy the threat, like we have seen in 2008 in Georgia, is all Russia needs. Did Russia occupy Georgia in 2008? Did they roll into Tbilisi and hang Saakashvili on his tie? Russia went in, destroyed Georgian forces, took the Hummers, and got out. And while Ukraine may be a tougher nut to crack, contemporary Russian military is much more modernised than the force we have seen in 2008.
Limited this “special military operation” certainly is, Russia did not deploy its full might. Although, the conflict seems to escalate, the Ukrainians are not a finite resource, and will be destroyed eventually.
Russia has however set itself a goal of denazification, and for that I think some form of control of Ukraine will be necessary. You cannot have Western Ukraine that claims the rightful control and the right to ideologically mold everything to the Don river, and claim you have achieved denazification.
Russia should achieve this by 2026, or they will have this cancerous growth on the body of Russia for another 100 years…
