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Crimea keeps getting hit while Russian air defense is stretched across too many targets. Businesses are asking for weapons because they no longer trust the state to protect them. Banks face new pressure from a war that was supposed to stay far from Russias financial system. Putin sold control, but the war is now pushing civilian institutions toward the battlefield.
Once bank staff need weapons against drones, Russias rear is no longer secure. Kremlin power depends on fear, money, and the promise that Moscow can protect its own system. Ukraine is breaking that promise in front of Russias banks, businesses, and occupied Crimea.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: Why Russia Is Losing Now
01:14 - Banker Militia: Putin Steals Russia's Air Defense
03:12 - Banking Collapse: Inside Russia's Liquidity Crisis
05:00 - KGB Bankers: Kremlin Fails to Modernize Sberbank
05:55 - Business Panic: Russian Enterprises Beg for Guns
06:39 - Crimea Blown: Ukraine Destroys Russian Radar Networks
07:52 - Target Belarus: Lukashenko Fears Massive Drone Strikes
10:32 - China Rejection: Beijing Denies Putin Financial Aid
11:15 - Kazakh Snub: Tokayev Humiliates the Kremlin Delegation
12:34 - Putin's Paranoia: FSB Hides Paranoid Russian Leader
Jilly_in_VA
(14,652 posts)Gee whiz, Vlad. The end is near.
hedda_foil
(17,048 posts)... either he is not speaking English or he is an AI character. He has an impressively large following but, at best, this is Ukrainian propaganda, not a legitimate report of the conditions Russia is facing.
Sorry, but the lip movements have no relationship to the spoken words.
Pluvious
(5,458 posts)Also, any selected employee by the bank would have to be trained by the military and necessarily enlist in the military before they can be trained.
So - a way to increase conscription.
Russia must be truly suffering, seriously, economically. Clearly, potential conscripts are leaving the country left right and center.
Those actions last year are consistent with something else they have recently done...
Putin is now offering enlistees to the military a signup inducement to have their personal debts forgiven
That removal will not be because the government will pay off their personal loans, but it will tell the banks and companies that the government will NOT aid enforcing their collection, putting the losses on the companies and the banks that have made the loans, rather than the burden being on the government to pay the enlistee their sign-up bonus
They are getting more and more desperate as this grinds on