I showed you articles from mainstream financial publications. You dismiss them without addressing anything they say, and then in the next breath tell me that Russian economy is collapsing because some telegram channel told you so.

Mainstream financial publications like the cccp owned Global Times News. That's state propaganda bud, sure you guys can't even tell the difference. All of the financial information I gave you, like Russia's M2 situation are from respected economic information aggregators, the Russian telegram channels just tell me how badly Russia is currently doing on the front line. You seem to be getting confused.

Literally every article in mainstream western media says that

This is likely your problem, the mainstream media is brain rot, nobody reads it anymore which is why they are not doing well financially. I also dislike when people use "literally" when it is not appropriate in the sentence. It makes me feel like I'm talking to a poorly educated teenager.

The only reason Ukraine is able to keep fighting is because NATO is pouring hundreds of billions of resources taken from its own people into it every single year. That's why the standard of living in the west is now collapsing

Financing Ukraine in this war is a drop in the economic bucket, remember the EU economy is 10 times the size of the Russian one. If it is hurting the EU imagine what it's doing to Russia. There are other reasons for the sluggish EU growth but this is not the forum for that.

Again, mainstream western media disagrees with your delusions.

Again with your mainstream media, you need to get off Fox news grandpa and get with the 21st century.

That's money coming from the pockets of mouth breathers such as yourself.

I will pay it happily if it keeps the Russian hordes in Mordor. On a more positive note I have found my European holidays more enjoyable for the same reason.

The first of the linked sites you posted, ukrainewarlosses.org was interesting, it seems very similar to the more official .com version but when I looked into it's ownership I could not find it, seems very sketchy. You should be more careful about the sources you chose to post, unverified slop like this site makes you look like a bad actor.

You then seem to think that Russia won't collapse because America spends more money than Russia on defence. I fail to see the logic here, you promised to explain it to me using smaller words. It appears to me that you do t understand the fundamental differences in the size and scale of the US economy and the benefits of possessing the world reserve currency. The USA are also only spending about 3% of GDP on this war compared with Russia's 8%. ( This is discounting the credit Russian banks have extended to the military industrial complex on the orders of Putin as an "off books" method to finance the war.)

It's called trade, but I guess it's difficult for somebody living in a vassal state to understand how trade between two countries works without one being taken advantage of.

China is by far the bigger player in Sino-Russian relations. Russia is also in a desperate starting position of having no other option when trading due to the richer half of the world sanctioning and not wanting to do business with them. If you do not believe that China will take advantage of this situation you are hopelessly naïve. Check out how the negotiations are going over the pipeline going to China, not good for Russia. In economics, in order to achieve the best price it is always favourable to have many customers competing for your product, not one big customer who can dictate terms to you.

Go read up what a war of attrition is so you don't keep making a clown of yourself.

Ah so a war of attrition is one where Russia struggles to take ground against their much smaller neighbor for 4 years while their economy goes down the toilet. I was such a fool, I get it now!

This is just yet another Russian excuse for failure. I used to think that an economic path to victory was Ukraine's only hope but watching them absolutely batter Russia the last few months I'm starting to think Ukraine can beat Russia back to their borders. Ukrainians have a much better and more modern army structure, Ukrainian NCOs can make decisions on the field where the Russian soldiers stand around in large groups like idiots waiting for orders and get cancelled in big groups. Russia is finding it harder to keep what is happening on the front lines a secret so they are running out of voluntary sign up meat.

Why do European regimes ban Russian media and want to personally identify you all online? This doesn’t sound like something the winning side

Russian media ban is because RT is just a propaganda network, why would Europe let Russia beam propaganda in when fighting a proxy war, this is a no brainer and Russia does the exact same thing. You then accuse Europe of wanting to personally identify everyone online, a small group tried and it got voted down and looks unlikely to have a hope of passing. In the meantime we have Russia forcing it's citizens to use Russia Max government app for all payments and communication, messing up the army who use signal and telegram but are now throttled. You can see your projection from the moon dude!

This doesn’t sound like something the winning side would be doing

I know right? This is why Russia is doing it and Ukraine is not, your words homie. I do love our little chats.