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Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Post by duxup »

NONE of this seems to require the war we've seen so far...

He can kick out media folks for any reason he likes.

His war makes his military look weak / strengthened his opponent's resolve.

>Putin is not trying very hard to conquer Ukraine. His expensive weaponry is being held back – he is invading on the cheap with expendable conscripts and lots of shelling from close range.

I find this hard to buy into at this point.

I think more likely he is going to war with what he really has available.

Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

#13

Post by jakuboboza »

Stop making out of Putin 250 IQ genius. He overplayed his hand and now he is looking to get something out of it. He can't just walk out of Ukraine.

One thing that invalidates Your post is the logistics. You need tones and tones of material to push war effort and Ukraine destroyed rail connections to belarus and russia at the start of the war. Without good logistics you can't win war.

Other thing that is a "ps" invalidating point is that Putler commited 100% of his best soldiers to this war. Entire set of specnaz and russian marines are deployed.

So yeah, stop thinking like 4d chess are at play.

Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Post by jakuboboza »

ravedave5 wrote: post #12

Barely into it and I find this nugget "His expensive weaponry is being held back" the SU-34's being shot down would disagree, and the tens of million dollar MRLSs being towed by farmers as well...

Yes Ka-52, SU-30U, Pantsir-S1, S400 (which he has like just few units produced). All of this is best possible EQ russina army has. T-80UM2 is the most modern in operation Putler has. Don't even start the talk about T-14 armata that breaks even during parade, weights 60+ tones and is made in less than 20 units entirely.

Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Post by vmh1928 »

throwmeariver1 wrote: post #4

Izabella Kaminska... I always had a laugh about her features at FT I am glad she is doing the same shit posting at her own outlet. I am still not sure if she tries to do satire or if she is serious but you have to give it to her she is entertaining.

To the conspiratorial mind-set the world is orchestrated. Nothing happens by chance or due to the chaotic nature of life. All is planned and controlled. Putin is orchestrating everything, starting a war just to have sanctions enacted to do what he is not unilaterally able to do,) toward the end goal (like 3D chess moves,) of establishing a CBDC and isolating Russia from the west completely. (Or making a political axis of Russia / China and buffer states.) Or not.

Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Post by jakuboboza »

duxup wrote: post #11

NONE of this seems to require the war we've seen so far... He can kick out media folks for any reason he likes. His war makes his military look weak / strengthened his opponent's resolve. >Putin is not trying very hard to conquer Ukraine. His expensive weaponry is being held back – he is invading on the cheap with expendable conscripts and lots of shelling from close range. I find this hard to buy into at this point.…

Putin is trying very hard, but western people don't understand war and russian starting point.

* Logistics is being targeted * Russian army relies in railroads like its 1945 * Ukraine targets logistics as the well identified weak link * Ukraine is defended by everyone and everyone hates Russians. * Morale is Russian army is turbo low. They dont want to kill people who could be their relatives. * Generals on Russian side die further demoralizing them. * They realised top is using them often as cannon fodder. * Logistics company in US army is usually 4 times bigger than in Russian army per organisational unit of army. It means that US understand the war much better than Russia.

Re: Is Putin’s end game the roll out of a domestic CBDC?

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Post by somedude895 »

h2odragon wrote: post #2

I like this because it flies a little further than some of the other explanations for puzzling aspects of events. However, it seems that all these goals could've been achieved much cheaper, with perhaps a little more time investment? COVID would have provided a much better excuse for isolationism without sending troops anywhere. I think Russian troops in Ukraine has to be read as "Russia's rulers want to control more…

> it seems that all these goals could've been achieved much cheaper, with perhaps a little more time investment?

This is a massive understatement. It makes absolutely no sense in any way. The fact that the author thought it necessary to add some big introduction about their "source" in an attempt to add credibility in what is just some fantasy by someone who really doesn't like the idea of CBDCs is highly suspicious.

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