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TexasTowelie

(122,528 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:11 PM Saturday

Cracking: Russia's War Machine Collapsing - Jason Jay Smart



Russia’s war machine is cracking from the inside. Ukraine’s radio-silent drones are blinding the Black Sea Fleet and torching rail-side fuel depots, stalling trains from Crimea to Rostov. Inside Moscow, reshuffles, raids and ‘internal enemies’ reveal a regime losing control—and why the tempo of this war is shifting.

This Ukraine war update and military analysis covers the logistics collapse, drone warfare, and Kremlin infighting. We examine the Sevastopol Khersones hub strike and how Black Sea Fleet radar and surveillance gaps emerged; Crimea fuel depot fires and delayed trains; and Rostov and Voronezh power-line disruptions. The video focuses on Ukraine’s new radio-silent, terrain-following drones that avoid jamming and enable precision attacks on rail chokepoints. We also explore the signals of an inner crisis in Russia: FSB crackdowns, propagandist targeting, command reshuffles, and collapsing morale.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Vladimir Putin is Lost
01:05 Black Sea Fleet's Surveillance Struck
04:45 The Russian World / Russkii Mir, Dugin, & Revolution in Russia
07:43 Ukraine's New Martian Drones
08:04 The Kremlin's Panic Worsens
11:05 The FSB is a Mafia
13:14 Are Russians Realizing the Kremlin's Lies?
13:34 What Putin Truly Fears
14:49 Fixing Ukrainian Drones - Volunteer Optical Laboratory
16:06 Why Ukraine is Winning & Russia is Losing
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Russia's got one more rotten trick up its sleeve Warpy Saturday #1

Warpy

(113,845 posts)
1. Russia's got one more rotten trick up its sleeve
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:35 PM
Saturday

State TV has been reporting (no links I want to post, not yet, maybe tomorrow) that Estonia is preparing an attack against Russia, a classic false flag that will allow Russia to attack Estonia.

What they're counting on is that the rest of NATO will be willing to sacrifice a small, low population country to avoid even sabre rattling over a nuclear response. If that does happen, NATO will be irretrievably broken.

My hope is that NATO calls Putin's bluff on this. An Article 5 declaration will be enough to get the Riussians back into their own country, a couple of "rogue generals" publicly executed, "it was a terrible mistake," blah blah blah.

Putin is a coward, like all other autocrats He'll stop when he's stopped. Don't let him join with MAGA in destroying the one organization that has a chance of stopping him.

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