Leaked US military documents show the US believes Russia will be able to continue funding its war in Ukraine for at least another year despite Western sanctions, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The assessments were part of a trove of documents allegedly released by Jack Teixeira, an Air National guardsman who faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted for the leaks.
According to the Post, the leaked documents show that Russia’s economic elite are unlikely to withdraw support for Russian President Vladimir Putin even if they don’t agree entirely on the actions in Ukraine and have taken a hit from US sanctions.
“Moscow is relying on increased corporate taxes, its sovereign wealth fund, increased imports and businesses adaptability to help mitigate economic pressures,” the assessment reads.
The Post said the documents are marked with a code that suggests the intelligence was gathered by intercepting private conversations held by Russians on limiting the impact of sanctions.
While Russia’s economy took a major hit from Western sanctions, Moscow’s efforts to shield itself from the US-led economic campaign has kept its currency strong and allowed energy exports to keep flowing.
In the early days of the invasion, President Biden bragged that sanctions turned the Russian ruble into “rubble,” but it quickly bounced back and was one of the strongest-performing currencies of 2022. The ruble is currently at similar levels to how it was performing before the invasion.
Russia has also found new markets for its oil in Asia, and its oil revenue has continued to soar despite the G7’s attempts to place a price cap on Russian crude. The US is pushing other G7 nations to agree on new sanctions that would ban all exports to Russia but is facing pushback from the EU and Japan.
Nah, add couple more years to it as Putin will ask his oligarchs to cough up significant chunk of their wealth’s to fund his war or else face prison then Putin will sign a new law that will place oligarchs’ assets under government control.
You are a supporter of oligarchs? I say their wealth is evidence of criminality and political influence behind austerity for the rest of the actual human population.
A huge majority of Russians would applaud that from what I can tell.
In the US, expecting our job creaters to financially help the US is considered Marxist and not only un-American but anti-American.
As you are alluding to in your post.
All of Bidens actions are a complete failure. They clearly can’t accept that the US dollar hemogony is ending faster than their ability to adapt.
One year? The changes the Russians are making to their economy (look east) are permanent. They know now that they cannot build the future they want with the west … at least until and unless Western Europe breaks its addiction to the empire.
But the retarded neocons in Washington don’t get it, they lost some time ago.
They are hoping greed for $ and power will give them what they want in Russia … it’s never failed them yet.
And bad Putin tripped them up. How dare he does that.
They endured 872 days of siege at Leningrad so another year of Ukraine will be a walk in the park for Russia.
The Pentagon has more leaks than the TITANIC.
“… the documents are marked with a code that suggests the intelligence was gathered by intercepting private conversations held by ” Polish comedians.
The war is polling at 70% in Russia plus unfortunately in that area of the world being against your nation’s war is not a very good idea if everyone knows your name.
So our high powered spooks write a report that observes that the Russian elites are going to continue their support.
Wow! That’s some deep thinking there …..
If this leak is the sort of profundities that our “analysts” get their big bucks for, they have a great scam going.
Stalin said at the end of WW2 no country will ever invaded Russia again , Russians are raised on the exploits of their WW2 veterans , there are very few families in Russia who did not have men / women fighting the Nazis , anyone who thinks the Russians won`t fight better get their head out of their ass.
Head over to youtube and peruse Judge Napolitano’s retirement hobby podcast.
His guests are usually sharing actual news from the front, making observations about the collapse of Ukraine’s fighting abilties, and even are questioning if Ukraine can even mount that counter offensive that our spooks DC say secretly (darn that leak;-) will fail.
It ain’t going so well for Ukraine
Judge Napolitano: Reality in Ukraine – Numbers Don’t Look Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kGH06PM-w
The thing is the Americans will put sanctions on Russia hurting the Europeans and not themselves , now they want to stop Europe from trading all together again hitting Europe and not themselves , the yanks blew up the NS2 pipe line to cut Germany off from CHEAP Russian gas which benefited the US and plunged Germany`s economy into recession.
That’s the true main goal of the war IMO: to deindustrialize Europe and turn us into a colony to finance the US last stand vs China, which may well include a war for Taiwan (or not).