The arrest of Deputy Russian Defence Minister Timur Ivanov for a bribe is more of a demonstrative flogging than some kind of systemic “development”. Everyone takes bribes, but they imprison only one and not the simplest one. The reason for such an “attack” on Putin’s deputy crony Shoigu is very banal – the money is running out and the time to carry bags of rubles from the budget has passed. There is not enough money for war and everyone should understand this. There is no doubt that this is not the last “landing”. Especially after the United States finally passed the Ukraine Military and Financial Assistance Act. Moscow sat down and thought.
The Kremlin does not yet see a way out of the current situation and, moreover, they will not see to the end of their military adventure, which has turned into a war between a decaying Russia and Ukraine armed with Western technologies. So far we are seeing flowers, the berries will come later, when Ukraine receives twelve more Patriot batteries, ATACMS with a range of up to 600 km and F-16s. No matter how they jump up and down in the Kremlin and Lubyanka, but to catch up with a departing train is impossible. China will not help much, and North Korea and Iran even more so. All that remains is to imprison for bribes and milk everyone who has not yet understood – “how much a pound is”.
US President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party today do not have complete freedom of action concerning Russia and Vova Putin personally for a well-known reason – the election battle for the White House has begun. After Christmas and New Year 2025, our hands will be untied and Russia will most likely receive an embargo on the sale of oil and gas. After which the oxygen for conducting large-scale military operations in Ukraine will be cut off, if not completely, then almost to the core. Neither China nor India will dare to ignore this embargo.
Today, Russia’s trade with Western countries goes through intermediaries in Asia and Africa. For the CIA, the White House and Congress, this is an open secret. They also know how to board up all trade loopholes bypassing sanctions. China, despite its obstinacy and seeming intractability, is not asking for trouble and is also waiting for the results of the elections in America. The sensation is unlikely to happen and Joe Biden will remain in the White House.
Everyone in Moscow sees this, but no cure for kleptomania has yet been invented and the spiders in the jar will soon begin to devour each other. What remains outside Russia can no longer be returned and this is not 300 billion dollars, but much more. The time is approaching to “dispossess” our own. There is nothing to take from the people except “mobilized” cannon fodder, but business is still holding on somehow. How will they survive there in the fall, when everything was flooded in the spring and this year’s harvest is in big doubt? – no one knows and no one wants to think about it. We have great doubts that North Korea and China will save Russia from hunger.
In addition, the majority of Russian oil refineries may “end their life” this summer, which means that they will have nothing to refuel their tractors with, all the diesel fuel will go to war. In general, as in the film by Ilya Repin, “They Didn’t Expect”. We told them: Don’t dig a hole for others! They didn’t listen, so let them “push ahead.”
German Obukhov
oboz.ua
