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Russia’s Economy Is Still ‘Bleeding Out’?
> Russia’s economy is bleeding out. And despite western worries about the Kremlin propaganda offensive in Africa and Asia, it is largely isolated internationally. <
Source: Vladimir Putin’s ship of fools is sinking fast. Will he take everyone down with him? – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Sep 24, 2022
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> Putin’s economic ruination of Russia, though still a work in progress, is matched by plummeting geopolitical influence. <
Source: Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Dec 7, 2025
Meanwhile Russia’s GDP continues to rise.
h/t: Brian McDonald
Also linked to on Andrei Martyanov’s site with the following comment:-
On what we in the European public are being told about this war, “b” headlines 2 articles from an English newspaper:-
“Russia’s economy is bleeding out. And despite western worries about the Kremlin propaganda offensive in Africa and Asia, it is largely isolated internationally.”
Source: “Vladimir Putin’s ship of fools is sinking fast. Will he take everyone down with him?” – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Sep 24, 2022
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” Putin’s economic ruination of Russia, though still a work in progress, is matched by plummeting geopolitical influence.”
Source: “Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall” – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Dec 7, 2025
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So too from EU sources and from what I pick up in the German press. And from such statements many deduce that the European politicians and military don’t understand the war in Ukraine and are working off false information, both military and economic.
I don’t believe a word of it. Our politicians and military know exactly what the position is in Ukraine. American and English personnel, military and Intel, are all over Ukraine. German Intel was very well-informed about the situation in Ukraine after 2014 and there’s no reason to believe they’re not still well-informed, So they’ll be seeing at first hand the military disaster that’s been unfolding in Ukraine over the last three years and they will certainly be aware of it now. Whatever the European politicians tell us in the general public about the war, they themselves will be fully aware that this is a lost war and was always going to be.
On the economic front the European politicians will certainly know, from anecdotal and statistical information available to them, that the Russian economy is far from being on its last legs. They will have known after the first few weeks that the sanctions war had not only failed; it has in many respects been beneficial to the Russians in that it has encouraged import substitution and has led the Russians to develop trading relations with other countries more reliable than the trading relations they had before 2022. Again, no matter what the politicians tell us in the general public, directly or through the journalists, they themselves cannot but know the true situation.
It’s possible that at the very start of the SMO the Western politicians genuinely hoped that the sanctions war would cripple the Russians and possibly lead to the break-up of the RF. I put together just after that time a collection of statements that indicated they did so hope. But March/April 2022 was the very latest the politicians could have been hoping to defeat Russia in the sanctions war. After that time it was clear even to the most hopeful that that ship had sailed.
After that defeat in the sanctions war the military war in Ukraine could never be won. No matter how courageously the Ukrainians fought they were up against impossible odds. The Russians had overwhelming superiority in arms supplies and manpower and the entire rear area of Ukraine lay virtually undefended. How could any war be won when the enemy could attack rear areas at will and there could be no equivalent response? We had condemned our proxies to certain defeat at huge cost to themselves whilst we ourselves could rely on remaining unscathed. Failing victory in the sanctions war the military war was lost from the start.
It was therefore apparent from the start that all the talk that poured out of the press and from the politicians was intended only to delude the public. All the talk of the “Battle for Kiev” or this or that Ukrainian “offensive” was theatre. We in the public were presented with an imaginary war in an imaginary country against an imagined enemy. Happy talk to keep the public supporting a war against Russia that was never going to be won. And as the article referred to above by “b” shows, we are still being presented with such nonsense.
But the politicians and the journalists themselves could never have believed the nonsense. Nor our military. They cannot but have known the true position.
As that true position starts to get through to us in the public we see the politicians searching for alibis. The European alibi is clear enough. “We were well on the road to victory and would have won had Trump not let us down at the last minute.” That accompanied, as we’re already seeing in the English press, by hints that Trump has always been pro-Russian, with further hints that “Russiagate” is waiting to be resurrected.
Trump’s alibi, in contrast, being that this was simply a war he’d inherited, that he could have resolved it, but that the Europeans foiled his attempts. But as the blame game of the Western politicians, the war of alibis, runs its course we’re still left wondering what the European politicians hoped to achieve, and still hope to achieve, in pursuing this unwinnable war.
They’re not just after saving face as the disaster unfolds. I believe that after the defeat the European politicians hope to take their gullible publics into the new Cold War. It’s only if the European publics get behind that new Cold War with Russia that the European politicians can avoid being held to account.
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References.
– “b’s” article referred to above.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/12/russias-economy-is-still-bleeding-out.html#comments
– Summary of Western hopes at the start of the SMO in a note “The Sanctions War” here:-
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/squaring-an-impossible-circle-of-peace-and-insecurity-in-ukraine
– Examination of the reach of the Western information war in a conversation between Professor Diesen and Patrik Raab here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qeNJxxktyw&t=3s
On the military war there are now many military personnel and military analysts pointing out the war was not winnable in that theatre and with the resources available. Of those many Commodore Jermy, whose field is strategic studies, is now perhaps the best known in England. Plenty of similar warnings from the States, some well before the SMO started, but the first warning I saw in England was from General Lord Roberts early on in 2022 (Times Radio, my transcript.)
“”But what we’ve then ended up doing is stoking the (Syrian) war by feeding in weapons and resources and some advice, but never giving our proxies the means of winning it; and I thought at the time that that was morally questionable because it would result in a huge number of deaths; which is exactly what happened.”
“We’ve got to be very careful that with our current approach to Ukraine, we don’t end up with the same result.”
Posted by: English Outsider | Dec 9 2025 13:41 utc | 50
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