Yeah, fat chance. I'm more inclined to believe in betrayal by Russian national bourgeoisie than that. Let's not pretend situation in Russia isn't difficult and that it's not getting more difficult due to aforementioned bourgeoisie. Gas prices keep rising, food prices keep rising (basic stuff, like buckwheat or macaroni). The talking heads keep talking about needing to expand industry and ramp up military production, but in the same breath admit a deficit of trained personnel (guess what, someone has to operate the machinery), and in the same breath still refuse to raise salaries. Why would someone go to be a welder or CNC machine operator, when they could go be a yandex food courier for the same money, with the same hours, and relatively less hassle? Capitalism, baby. Likewise the bourgeoisie - why not tear down the production line for short term profit? Why not demand more funds for existing lines? It's not like the government could refuse.
And now there's the threat of UAVs and bombs and whatnot. There's word that the ATACMS provided by the USA will have cluster warheads - as opposed to "normal" ones, that could be used against hard targets, like bunkers. Then why clusters? They're terrific at tearing apart unarmoured vehicles and human flesh. That's why.
Apologies for the rant. Point is, the west is unlikely to capitulate. Instead we'll just see more terror weapons. Them trickling down in such a meager fashion seems to also be on purpose. It's going to be jets to lob missiles at Crimea (look at the recent Sevastopol strike), long range missiles to murder civilians in Belgorod and Tver. AFU has already used chemical weapons on small drones - big warheads are the next step. White phosphorus. Dirty bombs. No cost is too great to maintain the hegemony.
Yeah, fat chance. I'm more inclined to believe in betrayal by Russian national bourgeoisie than that. Let's not pretend situation in Russia isn't difficult and that it's not getting more difficult due to aforementioned bourgeoisie. Gas prices keep rising, food prices keep rising (basic stuff, like buckwheat or macaroni). The talking heads keep talking about needing to expand industry and ramp up military production, but in the same breath admit a deficit of trained personnel (guess what, someone has to operate the machinery), and in the same breath still refuse to raise salaries. Why would someone go to be a welder or CNC machine operator, when they could go be a yandex food courier for the same money, with the same hours, and relatively less hassle? Capitalism, baby. Likewise the bourgeoisie - why not tear down the production line for short term profit? Why not demand more funds for existing lines? It's not like the government could refuse.
And now there's the threat of UAVs and bombs and whatnot. There's word that the ATACMS provided by the USA will have cluster warheads - as opposed to "normal" ones, that could be used against hard targets, like bunkers. Then why clusters? They're terrific at tearing apart unarmoured vehicles and human flesh. That's why.
Apologies for the rant. Point is, the west is unlikely to capitulate. Instead we'll just see more terror weapons. Them trickling down in such a meager fashion seems to also be on purpose. It's going to be jets to lob missiles at Crimea (look at the recent Sevastopol strike), long range missiles to murder civilians in Belgorod and Tver. AFU has already used chemical weapons on small drones - big warheads are the next step. White phosphorus. Dirty bombs. No cost is too great to maintain the hegemony.