These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022, intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed, has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I. His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield; some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May. What gains the Russians have made have come at enormous cost: Last month, Anna Keast-Butler, the director of British intelligence agency GCHQ, cited new intelligence indicating that Russian war deaths had likely reached almost half a million; various Western sources put total Russian casualties at significantly more than 1 million.
But the sentiment expressed in the first 2 paragraphs is nothing new. Collapse has been imminent for a while, but it's happening too slowly. The Kremlin has employed all sorts of life-extending tricks in the past years and probably they can still keep it up for a while.
Oh no, again that analytics like "country X sinks soon", "rockets stockpiles is almost depleted", "warmonger Y is struggled in that wartimes", "country A economics blows in X days, Y months". You may paste here Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, USA or countryname_in_conflict and vary of self-pronounced intelligence or different countries and nothing changes, none of them is truth and works only on feelings of reader at the moment of reading and slightly after it forming subjects "own" point of view if that "intelligence" will be delivered constantly by some time to the same username.
I'm pro-Ukraine and fuck Putin. I'm conflicted though because I've always loved Russian art and literature. That comes from the people though, not the power. The people are almost the same everywhere. If the people ever get their collective shit together then watch out power!
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