I guess you understand what Putin was talking about the U.S in the Tucker Carlson interview when the U.S make moves like this
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You mean Vlad shares my view?
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Yes he did, he mentioned how the U.S makes policies and decision that are killing their economy
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Yes. But at this point they're doubling down on their policy errors. Russia/China literally only needs to hold their position in Ukraine and elsewhere. We are eating ourselves economically
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Russia is currently spending around one third of it's budget on military. That's not sustainable long term, unless they want to become North Korea.
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The problem is that they can keep doing this. Smth the West cannot.
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A lot of people don't want to see that the playing field changed radically.
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Yes, Russia is even more economically dependant on fossil fuel exports than was USSR. It's basically mafia with big gas station that pretends to be a sovereign nation. But Ukraine is doing good hits on their oil infrastructure near Black and Baltic seas, likely that export route will be non-functioning soon.
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then tell me what competencies, resources and economic advantages the eurozone has? is it the high national debt? the completely messed up currency? the ailing banking system? the failed climate policy? the deindustrialization of the continent? the massive flight of capital out of the eurozone?
Can You provide data, please? Because Russia only has 30% Debt/GDP
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I think You don't get the point. Russia can finance this proxy war obviously meanwhile the whole NATO bloc is running higher and higher deficits and is losing anyways.
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How they are losing? There are problems, but they aren't losing. Ukraina did mostly unsuccessful counter-offensive by not gaining much territory, but Russia managed anyway to lose few times more soldiers during that period. Military theory says that normally attacker loses are at least 3 to 1 vs defender's (more in urban warfare), here it was opposite.
60 billion aid USA plans to give to Ukraine is less than 10% of it's military budget, which could be no more than 2% of total federal budget. And it's not money they are sending, but mostly ammunition and military equipment, lots of that comes from already existing stores.