Ukraine says they’re making one flamingo a day and hope to have it up to seven flamingos a day by October. So let’s give them 2.5 a day through September. 75 ICBMs along with their long range Drones should be enough to, if nothing else, maintain the current gas supply deficit.
I still watch the Constantine inside Russia channel. I leave it on when I’m doing something else and pay attention when it strikes me. On Wednesdays he does his economic update. His latest said that 20 of 72 Russian provinces are reporting gas shortages.
More importantly, numerous Russian businesses are doing their economic reporting, and several companies are reporting massive deficits and losses. Interestingly, the companies with severe losses include companies that make helicopters and other types of military supplies for the MOD. Like he said, how in the world with Russia devoting everything to its military goals and ordering and paying for gobs of military equipment, can those companies be approaching bankruptcy? He said it makes no sense in the west, but the answer is simple: the oligarchs are stealing all the money that is flowing into the companies right now - money coming in at record levels and yet somehow disappearing before it hits the books.
The very best thing the West has going for it is that Russia will always be Russia. Russia always overcame its lack of technical skill and endemic corruption with numbers. They had enough people to make T-34 tanks and peasant soldiers to clear minefields by walking through them.
Now they are a shrunken impoverished gas station that no longer has gas to sell because of sanctions and refinery attacks.
Ukraine just needs to hang on another year. Not win, just survive. Because if they keep standing long enough, they will win.
and this is interesting. He also said that there is a recent agreement for Russia to give a huge amount (20 billion dollars) of natural gas to Turkey for free. well, not for free. But instead of charging Turkey - Turkey promises to complete a nuclear power plant. they were both building that has since ceased construction.
Think about that. In an ongoing war with Petro resources dwindling and despite being cash broke, Russia has apparently agreed to deliver $20 billion worth of natural gas to Turkey and not get any cash in return.