>Oil rent came from outside the system; foreigners paid for a tradable asset, and the money circulated through the economy with real multiplier effects. Military rent is internal redistribution towards assets designed for destruction. The body is metabolising its own muscle tissue for energy.
Once Russian drone industry enters the export market they will blow out almost every competitor in any market not named Europe and US.
Russia now can export drones (Geran lineup) that can reliably overwhelm any current anti-air network + can offer expertise in constructing local production (Elabuga-like) + can offer drone pilot training and drone-aware tactics.
The only other country with this expertise is Ukraine (except for setting up production, they have too much cottage industry stuff going on) but outside of Europe/US most countries (especially African ones) will go with Russia as a supplier.
We've been hearing for years that Putin is on his deathbed, too. It seems there are a lot of people guessing and writing articles about what they're guessing.
"Slava Ukraine" (Glory to the Ukraine) is the slogan used by the Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazis and mass-murdered Poles and Jews.
"In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. ... Its use was revived again during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Russo-Ukrainian War, during which it became a widely popular symbol in Ukraine."[0]
Your first point is unsubstantiated by the link. You pick two points in history for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2.
From the same wikipedia page
> In July 1940, a Ukrainian observer from the Włodawa area noted: We have not yet seen in our lives such an educated, so organised rural youth. Every child who passed by us raised his hand and greeted: "Glory to Ukraine"
Only if you don't click on the "Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists". Here you are:
"The OUN intended to create a Ukrainian state with widely understood Ukrainian territories, but inhabited by Ukrainian people narrowly understood, according to Timothy Snyder. Its first congress in 1929 resolved that "Only the complete removal of all occupiers from Ukrainian lands will allow for the general development of the Ukrainian Nation within its own state." OUN's "Ten Commandments" stated "Aspire to expand the strength, riches, and size of the Ukrainian State even by means of enslaving foreigners", or "Thou shalt struggle for the glory, greatness, power, and space of the Ukrainian state by enslaving the strangers"."[0]
And then some action:
"The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population, against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia, and the Lublin region from 1943 to 1945. The UPA's actions resulted in up to 100,000 Polish deaths.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. These killings were exceptionally brutal, and most of the victims were women and children. Other victims of the massacres included several hundred Armenians, Jews, Russians, Czechs, Georgians, and Ukrainians who were part of Polish families or opposed the UPA and impeded the massacres by hiding Polish escapees"[1]
>for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2
Yeah, and then you use it to greet each other while genociding non-Ukrainians and smear it forever.
Swastika dates back much further, but today it tells you quite a lot about Ukrainian "heroes" with such tattoos:
"Des saluts nazis, des croix gammées, des emblèmes de la SS… La cellule d’enquête vidéo du Monde en a identifié plusieurs centaines, arborés par des centaines de soldats ukrainiens sur les réseaux sociaux. Parmi les 350 soldats repérés, 200 membres de la 3e brigade d’assaut, l’une des unités fer de lance de l’armée ukrainienne."[2]
>such an educated, so organised rural youth
And the point is? Nazis were educated and organized too. One even sent Americans to the moon some time later.
>Oil rent came from outside the system; foreigners paid for a tradable asset, and the money circulated through the economy with real multiplier effects. Military rent is internal redistribution towards assets designed for destruction. The body is metabolising its own muscle tissue for energy.
Once Russian drone industry enters the export market they will blow out almost every competitor in any market not named Europe and US.
Russia now can export drones (Geran lineup) that can reliably overwhelm any current anti-air network + can offer expertise in constructing local production (Elabuga-like) + can offer drone pilot training and drone-aware tactics.
The only other country with this expertise is Ukraine (except for setting up production, they have too much cottage industry stuff going on) but outside of Europe/US most countries (especially African ones) will go with Russia as a supplier.
I wonder if China will ever start making a significant number of drones someday ;)
We've been hearing for years that Putin is on his deathbed, too. It seems there are a lot of people guessing and writing articles about what they're guessing.
Does anyone still take The Economist seriously about any sort of economic predictions?
this a guest opinion...i wonder though about who gets to be published
Perun has a recent video on the economic outlook for 2026 for both Ukraine (slava) and Ruzzia (pls stop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8n1I41PL-k
>Ukraine (slava)
"Slava Ukraine" (Glory to the Ukraine) is the slogan used by the Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazis and mass-murdered Poles and Jews.
"In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. ... Its use was revived again during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Russo-Ukrainian War, during which it became a widely popular symbol in Ukraine."[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini
Are you a russian troll?
Your first point is unsubstantiated by the link. You pick two points in history for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2.
From the same wikipedia page
> In July 1940, a Ukrainian observer from the Włodawa area noted: We have not yet seen in our lives such an educated, so organised rural youth. Every child who passed by us raised his hand and greeted: "Glory to Ukraine"
>Your first point is unsubstantiated by the link.
Only if you don't click on the "Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists". Here you are:
"The OUN intended to create a Ukrainian state with widely understood Ukrainian territories, but inhabited by Ukrainian people narrowly understood, according to Timothy Snyder. Its first congress in 1929 resolved that "Only the complete removal of all occupiers from Ukrainian lands will allow for the general development of the Ukrainian Nation within its own state." OUN's "Ten Commandments" stated "Aspire to expand the strength, riches, and size of the Ukrainian State even by means of enslaving foreigners", or "Thou shalt struggle for the glory, greatness, power, and space of the Ukrainian state by enslaving the strangers"."[0]
And then some action:
"The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population, against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia, and the Lublin region from 1943 to 1945. The UPA's actions resulted in up to 100,000 Polish deaths.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. These killings were exceptionally brutal, and most of the victims were women and children. Other victims of the massacres included several hundred Armenians, Jews, Russians, Czechs, Georgians, and Ukrainians who were part of Polish families or opposed the UPA and impeded the massacres by hiding Polish escapees"[1]
>for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2
Yeah, and then you use it to greet each other while genociding non-Ukrainians and smear it forever.
Swastika dates back much further, but today it tells you quite a lot about Ukrainian "heroes" with such tattoos:
"Des saluts nazis, des croix gammées, des emblèmes de la SS… La cellule d’enquête vidéo du Monde en a identifié plusieurs centaines, arborés par des centaines de soldats ukrainiens sur les réseaux sociaux. Parmi les 350 soldats repérés, 200 membres de la 3e brigade d’assaut, l’une des unités fer de lance de l’armée ukrainienne."[2]
>such an educated, so organised rural youth
And the point is? Nazis were educated and organized too. One even sent Americans to the moon some time later.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nati...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia...
[2] https://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/2025/06/18/guerre-en-ukr...
https://archive.today/wc8Bu
Failed state with 5000 nukes = the rest of the world has to support them.
This has been Putin's plan all along. He looks at Kim Jong Un with envy.