Stamp of Ukraine courtesy of Wikipedia, public domain

Cultural critic Chris Snow, at Medium, concludes a long meditation on the implications of the dramatic slowing of re-provisioning the front with Russian federation tanks and other war materiel:

Russia has been going through cycles of stagnation, expansion, and collapse since 1917. The first collapse of their empire in 1917 cost Russia roughly 3 percent of its territory, and the Bolshevik revolution cost the Tsar his head. In 1945, the allies lacked the will to follow through with “Operation unthinkable.”” Instead, Stalin could expand the Soviet realm significantly.

In 1991, the USSR collapsed and lost roughly 24 percent of her former colonial holdings, which the Soviets called “satellites.”

The Russian Federation was never a stable imperial project or a stable Federation. The vast Soviet stockpiles are almost depleted. …

The Russian pipeline network to Europe, the weapon exports are finished, their car production has cratered from 1.7 million units in 2021, down to roughly 650.000 on average per year since then. The Russian demographics are facing a multi vector and unstoppable collapse. The Russian research sector has been subjected to massive funding cuts and is suffering due to the huge war induced brain drain.

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In this anthill mentality system, the life of the ant means nothing, while the survival of the hill is everything. Tyrants do not know how to build anything.

Tyrants are negatively creative evil doers, these leeches only know how to kill, lie and steal from others.

This centralized and mono-cephalous system stamps out individualism and relies on backward group think. Reform and change are seen as something bad and negative.

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The Russian Empire has existed since 1721, and the Romanov dynasty has existed since 1613. The twilight has set upon Russia, denying the facts, won’t change them.

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The rest of Europe seems ill-prepared to deal with a broken and defeated or with an emboldened victorious Russia.

Slava Ukraine!