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Thu Oct 9, 2025, 11:08 PM Thursday

Putin Lost Control: Four Front Collapse - Jason Jay Smart



Russia’s collapse is visible on the tape. On October 8, 2025, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) sold off in panic while officials claimed stability. The market is not emotional. It is a scoreboard that prices power. This briefing connects red screens to realities on the ground. Desertions and repeat sentences show a manpower system in crisis. Sabotaged rails near St. Petersburg, a burned electronics plant in Novosibirsk, and fuel rationing in occupied Crimea reveal logistics under strain. Ukraine’s expanding deep strike window, including the Long Neptune adaptation approaching 1,000 kilometers or 621 miles, turns each reroute into late brigades and missed repairs. When supply starves, strategy shrinks.

You will see how losses outpace refurbishment across tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), armored personnel carriers (APCs), and artillery. You will see why mass drone launches bruise grids without changing outcomes, and how louder nuclear rhetoric rises as usable inventory falls. We translate MOEX moves into wiped equity and United States dollars (USD) so you can read the war through money, rails, and ranks. Markets moved first because they saw the chain the Kremlin denies. Desertions fracture command. Broken command exposes rails. Delays multiply across depots and refineries. Stockpiles thin. Threats replace capability.

If you want a clear path from finance to force, this is your map. Watch to the end, share it, and use this framework to read tomorrow’s tape faster than any press conference.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Russia's Stock Market Panic: The Real Story
02:03 Mass Desertions Are Collapsing the Russian Army
04:17 Sabotage & Chaos: Russia's Railways Are Burning
06:28 Ukraine's Deep Strikes: Industrial Nodes Exploding
07:15 Military Shortages: Tanks, IFVs, & Fuel
10:49 Empty Threats: Why Russia's Collapse Is Inevitable
13:28 Outro
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