Analisi: l’economia russa è in difficoltà. Ma questo non porterà Putin al tavolo delle trattative per anni | Affari della CNN

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The West can do better than that.

The kinetic sanctions are amiss in that report.

How about we just dismantle their economy faster then?

Pretty sure he will rather bring all of his people to starvation before ending war

No one knows how long it will take, all we know is once it happens, it will happen very fast. The Soviet Union collapsed in a matter of days, basically, due to economic reasons. The attrition war in Afghanistan was a large part of it, quite similar situation to Ukraine, where the allies funded the Afghans which fought the commies.

Putins war chest is declining fast, the oil price is at a historic low and Ukraine has done massive damage to their refining capabilities. Inflation in Russia is high despite an interest rate of 16(!)%. The Russian national Bank has their hands tied in their struggle to keep the inflation down, which is driven by the huge injections of money into the war machinery, the machinery that basically is the Russian economy right now.

Putin is running out of funds fast and have started to plunder his oligarch buddies assets. Russias only grace is that they have a huge pile of gold, and the value of gold has increased alot during the war.

And on top of this economic meltdown, there is a demographic crisis as so many young men are dying.

But yeah, could take months, years… who knows. The Russians knows pain better than most.

Forget all talks, negotiations. Russia will lie, try to get more, break agreements, take advantage of weakness, rebuild the army and go again, etc etc.
Russia neeeds to b military defeated, needs their oil, gas income , economy to b broken.
They need help leaving stolen land, by being chased away with violence.
And i believe that will happen.

Wondering why it was/is a common belief that even a bad economy would override national security interests for a great power? Especially since they have been willing to sacrifice thousands of lives over little territory in a war of attrition.

Let’s assume for a moment that Russia is under immense financial, political and military pressure. Whether we have already reached them or will in the future there is little incentive for Putin to negotiate. He is a dictator and thus has total control of the state but adversely will also be blamed for it’s failures. Suing for peace which can’t be sold as victory to the population would mean the end of Putin’s political career. Even dictators need public support to stay in power and cannot suffer any loss of face.

Even though the demands Russia has on Ukraine are harsh they are not existential. IMHO the sooner the parties can find peace the better and the real work of recovery can begin.

Well, he is not struggling personally, so ofc it wont.

Let them rot , slowly but surely

Many Europeans still don’t understand Russians and think same principles apply there. Majority of population will just accept whatever happens as it’s decided and nothing could change it. And most live like shit already anyway, Russia will have food and oil/gas anyway.

Not if Europe helps the Ukrainian government more. Politicians need to stop the bs and think about the future of your continent.