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The Russian Federal State Security Service (FSB) appears to be trying to penetrate the Russian Defense Industrial Base (DIB) in a way that is reminiscent of the KGB’s involvement with the Soviet military establishment. Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Center for the Research of Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment of the Ukrainian General Staff Andrii Rudyk remarked on March 16 that Ukrainian experts have found FSB markings on many Russian weapons components that Ukrainian forces have destroyed or captured on the battlefield. Rudyk noted that these markings appear not only on equipment such as T-90M tanks, but also on weapons’ microcircuits, and suggested that this means that the FSB conducted an equipment inspection of such weapons and components. Rudyk concluded that this means that the FSB does not trust Russian military leadership and is conducting inspections of Russian equipment accordingly. FSB markings on Russian equipment and weapons components, if confirmed, would have broader implications for the relationship between the FSB, the Russian DIB, and the broader Russian military apparatus. Either FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov has instructed the FSB to conduct these investigations at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, or Bortnikov has issued this directive independent of Putin. In either case the FSB appears to be directly inserting itself into the inner workings of the Russian DIB, likely penetrating equipment acquisition and inspection processes. The KGB (the FSB’s predecessor) notably penetrated the Red Army and Soviet defense industry in a similar fashion.
Again, you don't have any idea how Russia thinks and views this war. It is an existential war and they don't care about casualties other than trying to keep them to a minimum. To Russia the question is: 20k OR 150 million?
And really, after all those pages you come with that nonsense regarding the invasion again?!
Again, you don't have any idea how Russia thinks and views this war. It is an existential war and they don't care about casualties other than trying to keep them to a minimum. To Russia the question is: 20k OR 150 million?
And really, after all those pages you come with that nonsense regarding the invasion again?!
Though you appear consistently confused about the term used for one nation invading another, you are likely correct about this being an existential war for Russia.
There is a good chance that when this is all said and done, Russia will not exist in its present form.
And a real good chance that Putin will not exist in any form at all.
Even the NATO members are now itching to help Ukraine more - they don't want the Kremlin's aggressive attitude to get worse and start interfering with all of Eastern Europe! Russia needs to be put in its place NOW rather than later. Otherwise this will continue going for the rest of the 2020's.
Every once in a while I run across something about India continuing to buy Russian oil at a discount, or declining to join other nations in sanctioning Russia.
Now India is urging G20 nations to "move away" from Russia's war against Ukraine and focus on poverty.
Even the NATO members are now itching to help Ukraine more - they don't want the Kremlin's aggressive attitude to get worse and start interfering with all of Eastern Europe! Russia needs to be put in its place NOW rather than later. Otherwise this will continue going for the rest of the 2020's.
Bakhmut is proving that the Ukrainian military can put up a fight, but they need more than courage to run the Russians out.
Every once in a while I run across something about India continuing to buy Russian oil at a discount, or declining to join other nations in sanctioning Russia.
Now India is urging G20 nations to "move away" from Russia's war against Ukraine and focus on poverty.
Wondering why India doesn't appeal to Russia for help with their poverty, since that's who they are aligning themselves with.
Yeah, that G20 meeting was a joke on India's part. They thought they could steer it onto Third World developmental issues while ignoring the concerns of the majority of the G20 who are concerned about a major war going on with thousands of people dying. If India wants to help the third world, they can do it themselves since they are not helping anyone else.
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