Looks like the Easter peace got at least observed on some parts of the front.

Ukraine is working on anti air drones…

I get that, but that is also sort of the point. The next guy is also going to move some money from military projects into his own pocket. It will just be a different guy.

This is not about corruption. Everybody knows Russian officals are corrupt, including the Russians themself. It is part of the pearks. The reason they trial him, is to get rid of him for whatever reason.

Intresstingly countries like Italy, UK, France and Spain have stronger regional inequality divides then Germany.

It was in a port and got hit with a missile.

To be fair so has the downfall of western society.

And why Estonia got blamed for killing his daughter. Dugin is such a Germanophile.

His book is used to train Russian officers.

In 1990 Poland and Ukraine had about the same level of wealth. Poland joined the EU and is doing much better then Ukraine today and that was already clearly the case before the war started. That is the case for other countries who joined the EU as well. In addition to that the EU is also a security alliance, with nuclear weapons and a massive military behind it.

1670 losses in a day are 600k over a year. Also losses are increasing. At the same time Russia has a huge population, so sending millions to die is possible.

The problem with the grain sector is that Russian banks are supposed to be reconnected to SWIFT. That obviously would be used for other payments as well.

900k casulties. That makes this war very likely the second most deadly war this century this far. Obviously the Second Congo War is on a whole other level and I just hope we will never reach that in this war.

On a daily bases 107 on 26.02.2025. Here is a nice website with the Ukrainian statistics in a better format.

Gazprom has 460k employees to maintain the oil and gas infrastructure. The other big cost is taxes to the Russian government.

and this year will get worse, with Ukraine cutting off the last Russian gas pipeline to the EU.

Currently we are in a great time for this. Trump destroys the US economy, which means lower oil demand. China and the EU have massive EV sales reducing oil demand. Hitting Russian refineries means lower oil consumption within Russia. That means Russia has to export that oil, to at least make some money. Obviously Ukraine also targets those exports, but lower demand still means lower oil prices.

Russias population is about 145million, but more then half are women and a lot of the men do not fit in the age bracket. For the US the male population between 20-50 is only roughly double that.

Also India is a 1.4billion and six times the size of Texas in area. Oh and at least the Europeans understand enough about the US, to not presume they can just take the train.

Russia is recruiting. The bigger question is when will Russia run out of men, being willing to die in Ukraine. In 2024 Russia had 29.5million men between 20-50. That is Russian statistics, so who knows how good they are, but it is probably safe to presume that running out of men is not going to be the problem. More like running out of men willing to die and that is hard to say.

It uses Bing in the backend though.