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Brian Iselin on medium -dot- com has a very nice final article in a series of three on how the loss of oil income is killing Russian shell production.

This is a figure from that article:

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May 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Since the Russian NWF has run out of stored Western hard currency.

This means that any hard currency Russia uses for its war effort, such as on Chinese high tech electronics for missiles, has to come from their sales of oil and natural gas.

This has deadly implications.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now Russian repair trains are derailing?

Oh My!

That is one of my important 'flaming datums' for systemic Russian railway collapse in-progress.
‼️ Russia: “A repair train derailed at the Rassudovo railway station in New Moscow. According to preliminary information, one person died and three were injured.”

www.kommersant.ru/doc/7637861
April 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This just in from the Syzran Refinery
March 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There are 'strong rumors' reaching me of satellite photos about to come out showing 100's of trains idled at sidings and marshaling yards across Russia.

That is, photo documentation of stage 4 of the Russian rail system collapse is about to emerge.

The Russian rail system collapse sequence...

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November 25, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Increasing Russian derailments, now with shunting locomotives, in St. Petersburg?

All is proceeding as has been foreseen.😁
November 19, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Right...
‼️ The Moscow Exchange futures market had to suspend trading for 32 minutes.

The suspension was blamed on a hardware failure

www.interfax.ru/business/993...
November 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Important thing to point out, the Russian government has had the means to manipulate this exchange rate. They likely still have the means to manipulate it, and are ALLOWING it to devalue.
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Sullivan was, is and will always be an unserious yo-yo who fronted for "Escalation Management."

The name for appeasement in the 21st century.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan states that the difficult situation on the frontlines in Ukraine is not due to a lack of weapons but issues with mobilization. He said that the U.S. has provided tanks, F-16s, HIMARS, and Patriot air defense. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
'Kyiv Stands': Sullivan says U.S. role in defending Ukraine defines Biden's legacy
President Biden is making his final international summit appearance at the G20 in Brazil. It comes as he authorized Ukraine to fire long-range U.S. weapons into Russia. Nick Schifrin sat down with Nat...
www.pbs.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I'm going through a digitized USAAF microfilm and I just found a IJA radar PPI scope block diagram.🤯

Plan/polar position indicators radar scopes were - supposedly - not a display type developed by the Imperial Japanese in World War 2.
November 16, 2024 at 12:50 AM
The DPRK M-1989 Koksan self-propelled artillery system has been delivered to Russia. It outranges most AFU guns.

Koksan specs

Range:
40 km with standard shells
60 km with rocket-assisted shells.

Rate of Fire: 2 rounds every 5 minutes.

Caliber: 170 mm

newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/dprk-ha...
DPRK hands over its Koksan artillery systems to Russia
Read more
newsukraine.rbc.ua
November 16, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Russian daily losses of men in Ukraine now surpass the daily male birth rate of the entire Russian Federation.

www.newsweek.com/russia-casua...
Russia's loss of men in Ukraine surpasses daily birth rate
According to the latest data, an average of 1,836 boys were born per day in Russia. On Monday, 1,950 Russians died, says Ukraine.
www.newsweek.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Oh My!
‼️ “Russian Railways has suspended the dispatch of containers to the largest terminal in the Moscow region for 10 days”

🍿 Oh dear…

www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/11/15/r...
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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The Russian Government Bond Index still hasn’t reached 101.

www.investing.com/indices/russ...
November 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM