You keep on being delusional until reality hits you in the face.

Could say the same to you as Russia’s front lines collapse. Putin’s response is to shut off the internet, brave.

Don’t reply or I’ll have to block you if you annoy me more

I do what I want, you’ll tell me nothing. You Russia boys are a bunch of soft snowflakes. If you don’t want this conversation to continue all you have to do is not respond. Don’t give me cowardly meek threats, block away and protect your safe space if you need to, I don’t care.

What you clearly seem to be missing is that the quality of the economy that matters. In Russia, the economy consists of actual industry and material production.

Tripping over your own shoe laces right out of the fat once again, impressive. The EU has a much larger and more diverse manufacturing sector both in raw size and as a percentage of GDP. Remember the EU economy is 10 times the size of Russia’s, the EUs manufacturing output alone is larger than the Russian economy. Russia’s manufacturing sector has increased since the war, this is largely military industrial output. Russian manufacturing has also faced a severe manpower shortage lately for some reason. Russia is a resource mining and export economy, a “gas station” if you will.

And the fact that Russian industrial output is outpacing all of NATO says all we need to know here.

I am sure you mean military industrial output because overall industrial output we have seen is not bigger. Have you ever thought that maybe Russias military industrial output is bigger because they are at war and NATO are not? Are you actually for real?

Trade numbers with India and China has naturally gone up as Russia is a commodity exporter and their previous largest customers don’t want to do business any more so Russia has picked the next best option.

Hilarious of you to clutch your pearls after outright dismissing western media showing how European economies are collapsing as fear mongering.

What you call pearl clutching I call reality. It is a fact that Russia is not releasing all of their financial information, this is not a secret. Since 2022, Russia has systematically restricted access to key statistics, removing over 168 tables from statistical yearbooks and halting updates to over 115 indicators on the EMISS system. Hidden data includes detailed household incomes, budgetary expenditures, state salaries, and trade figures, aiming to conceal the war’s true economic impact.

I have not seen any evidence of “European economies collapsing”. Many would say they have weathered the storm of losing the untrustworthy supplier they developed an overdependence on quite well.

RAND consistently represents the US government motivations dronie

No, it is a right wing think tank that is famous for being consistently incorrect from its mistakes in getting America to go to war in Vietnam and then to prolong it all the way up to the Iraq war. Rand represents the view points of its biggest doners and no credible person should take them seriously due to their track record. Look it up for yourself dronie.

LMAO this is what we call projection because it’s precisely what’s happening to Europe right now.

Not projection, you are correct about European position under the USA and it has been this way since WW2. Russia used to be sovereign, it is no longer, now it is completely dependent on China the way Europe is on the USA. How does it feel to be the proxy?

. Russia can do the exact same type of money printing the west does. They simply haven’t had a reason to do that so far. Nobody with a working brain anticipates any Russian default

There is a difference between borrowing on the bond market and printing money. Your response makes it sound like you don’t understand this. You also don’t seem to be aware that the Russian money machine has been going brrrr since COVID,they have been printing money like crazy! https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/money-supply-m2

Russia has been trying and failing to raise money on the bond markets since the war started, still no takers because everybody believes Russia will default like they always do. This is not secret information, it has been widely reported on.

And they’re constantly proven to be wrong, but hey why look at what’s actually happening in the war when you can just cherry pick information that feeds into your delusions right?

The milibloggers getting info from the front lines? Individuals have been wrong, but when they are all talking about front line collapse, inability to counter drones and lack of communications all at once you should start to believe. Where do you get your information from? I would love to know what source you have more reliable than the Russian milibloggers.

Stay smug little fash, life’s about to get real hard for you and I’m here for it.

Somehow I doubt it. I love in Ireland, we are cool here. My biggest problem at the moment is that I have to wait 6 weeks for my new giant sliding doors to be imported from Barcelona. First world problems, I know. I appreciate your sympathy but you should really spend it on someone more deserving.

You guys normally have a bit more fight in you, not used to you just laying down like this. I’m sure the long war has taken a toll on you and like the Russian soldiers on the front line you have decided to just give up.

I actually think Russia is close to the end. They have been getting meeker and meeker lately with their statements and the 2 week long mobile internet blackout in Moscow has been suspicious to say the least…

Despite Russia’s failure on the battlefield they are still an old imperial power holding vast quantities of land from the days of the Romanov’s. They still hold power over multiple cultures and ethnicities and brutally suppress secessionist movements.

Fortunately the Trump government seems to be putting the American empire into an unrecoverable tail spin as a result of his and his movements almost unparalleled ignorance. We might just get to see this multipolar world, I actually think the future will be bipolar with India and China as the competing powers. The west has had its time.

When you’re too dumb to tell the difference between government spending and the overall economy.

The government are the biggest spenders in the economy, 40% of government spending going on war is a significant economic driver. If you do not understand this simple fact your teachers and parents should be ashamed of you. This is before we get into the off the books spending on the war, commercial banks being forced to lend to defencs companies that is unlikely to be repaid. This would double Russia’s war spend to closer to the 15% of GDP that brought down the soviet union. I don’t care about the USA and hope they go bust just like Russia.

Last I looked growth in Europe is worse than in Russia

Incorrect again, Russian growth 2025 was 1%, the EU which is 10 times the size of Russia’s economy grew at 1.5% despite further weaning off cheap Russian oil.

and nobody even knows wtf is going on in the US because they’re cooking their numbers. Anybody who isn’t lying would obviously mention this fact.

Hilarious hypocrisy coming from a Russian supporter. Russia has not released their real financials since the war began, we can only estimate from the limited data we have because they are obscuring the real situation. The USA has always had the most detailed published financial figures, this transparency is a reason they have the biggest economy. Under trump they have started hiding the jobs figures but not much else.

Anybody who isn’t lying would obviously mention this fact.

Then why didn’t you mention Russian obfuscation? By your own standards you must by lying then!

Anybody who has a functioning brain would understand why China would not want Russia to collapse economically.

I can’t believe you are quoting Rand, the dumbest of all the think-tanks. Do a little bit of research on them before using them as a source, makes you look quite uneducated. Rand and yourself clearly do not understand China’s goals and motivations. I fortunately have Chinese family and a foot in that world so I can educate you. China thinks Russia was stupid to start the war with Europe especially since they left 300 billion in EU control when going to war with them. Without China’s support Russia would have lost the war a long time ago. China is giving Russia enough support to keep going but not enough to win the war. A long war causes more damage to Russia and pushes them deeper under China’s thumb as a vassal state. China still wants Manchuria back, look at how few Russians live in the area and how many Chinese live both over the border and over the Russian side. What is to stop China taking the land to protect the ethnic Chinese living there? This process has already begun.

One large customer being all of BRICS

Brics is a Mickey mouse organisation, how much oil has India bought from Russia since the secondary sanctions kicked in recently? India are exploring the cheap Russian oil when it suits them and making bank off Russia’s resources. They then leave Russia high and dry when the going gets tough, great friends!

Oh wow, official deficit of 2.6% of GDP. That sounds terrible!! Remind me what that’s like for western countries again Einstein

It’s like talking to a small child who doesn’t understand, the emojis really add to this impression. Western countries can borrow to fund deficits, nobody has been willing to lend to Russia since the war started despite Russia offering huge returns. Russia needs to find deficits from its rapidly diminishing sovereign wealth fund. Even China will not lend to Russia as the anticipated a default.

If you have been following this conflict at all then you would be aware that Russian milibloggers are the biggest drama queens around.

They have given us the only view inside the Russian war machine other than the state narrative. You can believe the state of you like or vibes or whatever, I will continue to trust the best source of inside information we have, typically from the troops themselves.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se, keep feeding me delicious propaganda daddy Putin, eat it up good, yum yum. Let’s talk about the mobile internet blackouts in Moscow the last 2 weeks, this does not sound like winning to me. Sounds like daddy Putin is afraid of a coup.

You can continue to enjoy the hardship you are so great at tolerating. Life in Europe has not changed one bit, nobody even talks about the war in Ukraine, not now, barely even in 2022. It’s big news for you guys though as you endure hardships that we don’t even notice. Martyrs for nothing, lol.

Yes your videos of some dude putting up a flag somewhere should count just as much as the peaceful transfer of power in 3 democratic elections. Your propaganda points are absolute slop my man, try harder.

You seem to think that the Ukrainian government is murdering civilians in a vacuum in eastern Ukraine. Have some balls and acknowledge the Russian “little green men” campaigns with the girkin and his band of fools who ended up shooting down a commercial passenger plane with Russian supplied weaponry. You won’t though because you are a coward. The USA was not the only country messing around with Ukrainian sovereignty.

helped expediate the decline of the US,

Good

made Russia stronger

Lol, by draining their sovereign wealth fund, stocks of weaponry and the blood of their people when they are already in a demographic crisis. Delicious copium.

forged alliances between many countries

Who, north Korea? Haha. China are not allied to Russia and neither are India. Russia has lost Venezuela and Syria as allies and Iran are now finding out that being allied to Russia is worthless.

I’m also not from Israel or the USA, they are baby killers true just like Putin. All cut from the same cloth, imperial scum the lot of them.

There are several empires, American one is just the most powerful. The way the Chinese and the Russians treat their people does not give me hope that their empires would act any differently. Britain and France have shown they are not to be trusted either based on their past atrocities.

Would mutipolarity make things better or worse? I don’t think that it matters, the fundamental nature of power and nation states make conflict and war inevitable. A multipolar world would likely make conflict more common. Can you name any wars of aggression that have honestly been done to improve the position of the country and its people and not just the elites? Vertical power structures are the problem, I would happily see the USA lose its position as hegemon but multipolarity won’t change much.

The logical conclusion every country should be looking towards now should be acquiring nukes. Maybe this is the path to peace.

Ukraine had a fascist coup

I must have missed that one, maybe one man’s popular revolution is another man’s fascist coup. The numbers who participated in the protests turned revolution in Ukraine in 2014 are estimated at between 400,000-800,000.

You call it a fascist coup but how come power has peacefully and democratically changed hands 3 times since? Doesn’t really make sense now does it buddy? Now, how many times has power changed hands in Russia in the same timeframe?

You are peddling the same tired talking points from 4 years ago, even Putin and his stooges have stopped using them because they sound ridiculous. The biggest cause of NATO expansion is Russia’s belligerence, where it not for this war, Finland and Sweden would never have joined NATO.

Many things wrong with Putin, imperialism is not one of them.

Just because his imperialism doesn’t bother you it doesn’t make his imperialism ok, I am definitely against it.

First of all, Russian military spending is around 8% of the GDP. Anybody who didn’t fail math at school would quickly realize that it can’t be the major driver of the economy.

Russian military spending currently accounts for over 40% of all russian government spending. Anybody that didn’t fail economics at school would realise that the war is the major driver of the Russian economy. This government spending is also the major driver of Russian inflation. It also sounds as though you are unaware of what is being referred to as Russia’s “hidden war debt”. Russia has been using commercial bank loans to defence companies to finance the war. This almost doubles the official on the books war spend. https://navigatingrussia.substack.com/p/russias-hidden-war-debt

Thank you for another article from a year ago on how great Russia’s economy was doing 12 months ago, do you have anything more recent?

So, none of the factors that were leading to growth of Russian economy in 2024 have changed today.

Then explain to me why all of Russia’s growth has evaporated. Someone’s either lying or doesn’t understand…

China only cares about China, they are not Russia’s buddy. They do see Russia as a useful idiot in helping them to weaken the west, same way the USA views Ukraine I suppose. Win or lose Russia is now China’s vassal, look at you acting like China is some kind of trump card. Russia was allowed to trade with China before the war too you know, they just chose not to because it is more profitable when you have a large variety of customers. Now Russia just has one large customer who can dictate the terms to Russia as we are seeing play out in the pipeline negotiations.

Russia cutting itself off from parasitic west has actually been a great move because now Russia trade with friendly countries, and domestic industry in Russia is finally developing.

More delusion with no basis in reality, as if cutting yourself off from the richest half of the world will somehow help economically. Lol.

Russia’s economy has taken a pounding recently with oil prices barely covering the coat to extract, transport and discount.

Things that definitely happened in the real world and not in your deranged fantasies. 🤣

Russia are still losing money daily

[citation needed]

You do realise that Russia recorded an official deficit of 2.6% of GDP in 2025 right? That is called losing money Einstein, guess what the prediction for 2026 will be?

I base my opinions on geopolitics and economics on telegram channels, I’m very intelligent.

If you have been following this conflict at all you would be aware that the Russian milibloggers have been the best source of information on how the war is actually going for Russia. You can stick to the Russian state narrative as the victories get closer and closer to Moscow. Russia aren’t just winning slowly, they actively lost about 10% of all 2025s gains in the last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/ukraine-records-first-territorial-gains-since-2023-amid-russian-army-woes

Don’t worry about us here in Europe, we will survive on our hamster meat. Quite delicious once you get used to it. The EU grew by 1.5% in 2025, that was better than Russia for all your doomer articles.

Your comment implies that it is a binary choice. Lesser evil between the USA, Israel and Russia is a difficult shout, there is a cigarette paper between the three.

The three are also not the same, the USA is a far bigger threat to the world due to its military and financial might. Russia and Israel are not eating at the same table. It could probably be argued that they have the most twisted world views of the players here and I am very glad they are not in the conversation. China and the EU are the only other potentially global players. The EU are the USA’s yes men who have been greatly upset to recently be told this reality to their face. China look to be an alternative but when you peel back the veneer they are closer to the USA in their set up than most people would care to admit.

The lesser evil one is a difficult argument to make, do you believe if either Israel or Russia occupied the USA’s position as global hegemon that they would be better or worse?

This is not some comic book battle between good and evil, it is perfectly possible for both USA, Israel and Russia to be evil, they are all expansionist imperial entities currently engaging in imperial land grabs. I would say they are all evil.

Ukraine and Iran were just minding their own business when the imperialists attacked. USA, Russia and Israel are all on the same shitty side of the coin. The rest of the world hates the lot of them.

Feel free to show that anything is different today

Easy, economic growth dropped from 4.3% in 2024 to 1% in 2025. This is all the more significant because the 2024 GDP was primarily fueled by spending from Russia’s now almost depleted sovereign wealth fund. There are no long term economic benefits to spending your wealth on things that blow up. Now the money is gone, $600 billion wasted on this war, not to mention all of the lost economic benefits when Russia chose to cut itself off from the richest half of the world, genius level move here. The Russian public are still enjoying persistent high inflation and high interest rates with businesses closing at an ever increasing rate as Russian banks struggle with the black hole these defaults are causing their balance sheets.

Meanwhile, given what’s happening with energy prices even the dimmest libs should be able to realize Russian economy is going to get a boost this year.

Russia’s economy has taken a pounding recently with oil prices barely covering the coat to extract, transport and discount. Even with the current high oil prices Russia are still losing money daily, this will just extend Russia’s pain and delays the inevitable. I thought dim libs were on the Russian side here, the typical low IQ tankie crowd who use similar talking points to yourself.

Meanwhile, why would we talk about imaginary things that are only happening in your head?

You clearly aren’t paying attention to the conflict if you don’t understand the trouble Russia is currently in. I follow the Russian milibloggers closely as they actually understand what is going on and they are all going crazy right now. You should probably have a look.

If Russia is currently on the offensive, why have they been losing ground for the last month? They have lost about 10% of all their 2025 gains in the last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/ukraine-records-first-territorial-gains-since-2023-amid-russian-army-woes

Ukraine has now liberated nearly all of Dnipropetrovsk, great success!

Dude, both of those articles you linked are 2 years old now. 2 years might as well be 2 decades in terms of how quickly things change when a country is at war. You are seriously trying to sell me an article about Russia’s GDP growth in 2024 in 2026. You need to refresh your propaganda home screen comrade.

I love your definitive statement at the end to wrap it all up. It’s like you’ve been in a coma for the last 2 years.

It’s almost like you don’t understand that the western fascists lost the war of attrition against Russia.

Cute…

Now let’s talk about Russia’s current leaky front line that is happening right now in 2026. Or how about how Ukraine seems to be taking out an air defense system every day now. It’s starting to look really bad for Russia out there, beginning of the end hopefully.

Almost like you guys completely fail to understand that it is indeed possible to lose by “winning too slowly”. War is expensive and the longer it goes on the more it is crippling Russia’s economy.

If you are paying attention to this war as we enter its 5th year, Russia’s front line isn’t doing too well at the minute, especially so since Russia’s starlink access and messaging services have been cut off. Russia is currently moving troops around to try and plug holes in their leaky front line.

We prepared for that, we lined up a type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat

No worries, it’s hard to keep track of who America has screwed over and when.

It was the CIA who put the “Shah” into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country’s oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.

at the same time you correctly point out that US intervention usually fails when they deploy on the ground

This is not the point where US intervention fails. The boots on the ground do their job quite well initially. Where the US fails is long term, they have no long term strategy for these nations they defeat beyond sitting around with their thumbs up their arses for several expensive decades while their opponents simply wait them out.

In terms of retaliation, I still do not believe Iran can do enough to deter the US and the US policy of overwhelming retaliation would just lead to their own destruction by following this path.

In terms of your might is right point on imperialism I would again refer you back to the last century and a bit where all of the great empires collapsed one by one, starting with the Ottoman’s, followed by the Germans, British, French and Russian. This was the century of the insurgent, TE Lawrence, Michael Collins, Vo Nguyen Giap amongst others.

In very few cases is the leader of a state solely responsible for the military actions of said state

The USA is one case where the president is actually Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Provided the order is not illegal, the army have to follow the order of their superior. Trump and the republican party have been going down the state capture route a long time now and there is no one left who will say no to him, as we have seen since he has come to office. Even if someone was brave enough to dissent the would be removed from their position without much thought.

To me it looks like Trump is going to get America dragged into another expensive forever war that with their current debt levels they cannot afford. The attempted decapitation looks like it will not lead to a quick end as Iran entrenches. The American people should rightly be asking the question of why are we striking Iran when Iran has not now or ever posed a real threat to the USA. This is Trump’s war, he never even asked for congressional approval. If he’s going to bankrupt the American people he should at least have a damn good explanation of why. We are all scratching our heads trying to figure this out.

I understand the concept of tit for tat retaliation, the problem is American foreign policy for these instances is tit for tat tat. America makes sure its retaliatory responses are overwhelming making a tit for tat deterrence useless against them, this is the advantage of having the largest stick in the world. This is also why America’s rivals engage in asymmetric warfare with layers of plausible deniability.

This also assumes Iran is dealing with a rational actor acting logically, there is no evidence Trump is one in this case. This strike has no logical beneficial outcome for the American people, it will be interesting to see if Congress allows America to continue. Trumps reasons for doing Netenyahus bidding to the detriment of the American people is certainly a choice that we can all speculate on.

I disagree with your comparing Iran Vs US to the Brits Vs the Zulu’s. It is almost as if you have slept through the last 110 years of insurgency warfare and how effective it can be. Iran is a huge country with a population of 90 million. The USA can bomb with impunity sure but Iran has more people than Afghanistan and Iraq combined with greater military capabilities. Boots on the ground will be needed, you can’t win a war with stand off munitions alone. America was entirely unsuccessful with their previous two attempts at regime change by force this century, why would they do better against a bigger and better armed country? Look at the bunch of clowns in charge in America currently, I would not trust them to mind my plants for a week away let alone regime change in Iran.