Russia's Financial Collapse: The Data Putin Can't Hide Anymore - Jason Jay Smart

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1. So the "war of attrition" is not just attrition of population but of the economies.

Putin is willing to expend millions of his own people if he can murder millions of Ukrainians -- because he has more millions to work with. But Ukraine has proven up to the task of killing Russians (and North Koreans) without losing a like number of its own soldiers. And Ukraine is also supported by the other Democratic nations of Europe, its economy kept aloft through massive funding from its allies. Russia stands pretty much alone as its economy falters and crumbles.

So the race is on. Will Ukraine be brought to its knees because of the human losses Russia is inflicting on her? Or will Putin's Russia collapse economically first? I think Trump's recent attacks on Putin suggest strongly what his Administration feels to be the case. To put it in terms Trump would understand, there is no longer any profit in backing a declining Country on the verge of economic collapse. Trump. that is, sees Putin as a loser who can no longer promise to grease Trump's palms with the largesse that is the key to Trump's friendship and support..