Russia’s murderous tyrant Vladimir Putin is rapidly hurting his country.
It’s going towards an all-out collapse with his disastrous war of conquest in Ukraine. This united the entire world against Moscow, prominent analysts have warned.
Putin’s Ukraine Invasion Blunder
Clearly encouraged by the foreign policy and leadership weakness of Joe Biden, Putin decided to take advantage of the situation and grab for himself all of Ukraine.
Ukrainians resisted valiantly. They have been inflicting tremendous losses on the invaders, including at least 28,300 Russian soldiers killed in action and more than 7,500 units of Russian military equipment destroyed in 83 days of fighting.
The western and global public has also been terrified of heinous war crimes and acts of genocide committed by the Russian troops against peaceful Ukrainian civilians.
This led to unprecedented western financial and economic sanctions against Russia, along with skyrocketing amounts of western military aid flowing into Ukraine.
#Ukraine: The first ever footage of what is claimed by the UA side to be UK-supplied Brimstone missiles in use against Russian forces in the East.
Two vehicles (Named as tanks) are struck in very rapid succession- it is said this is deep behind the front lines. https://t.co/fUiU9Dcj84 pic.twitter.com/eopVJ9CrHz
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 17, 2022
#Russia: Why it is unwise to take items from the battlefield: Today, a Swedish Pansarskott 86 (AT-4) launcher exploded in the truck of a civilian car- not in UA, but in Mytishchi, Russia.
It was taken from the battlefields of E. Ukraine- perhaps as a souvenir or for sale. pic.twitter.com/OohtR3ExeJ
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 17, 2022
#Ukraine: In the East, Ukrainian indirect fire hit a Russian vehicle containing ammunition, claimed to be a self-propelled howitzer, with a dramatic result. pic.twitter.com/wGuhrM1afU
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 16, 2022
Total Economic and Political Collapse Awaits Russia
All of those developments are going to lead to Russia’s destruction, according to a Ukrainian-born British military expert, Alexander Temerko.
He served in Russia’s Defense Ministry in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, Putin’s predecessor.
Temerko forecasts in an op-ed for The Daily Mail that the Russian tyrant remains “trapped” by “myths” about Russia’s military prowess.
The Ukraine war has demonstrated the Russian armed forces are nothing but a “barbarous and shameful” bunch of “marauders and war criminals.”
Against that backdrop, Putin also managed to cause Russia’s neighbors, Finland and Sweden, to abandon their neutrality and join NATO.
Ironically, Moscow has been arguing it had to invade Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO.
Temerko predicts that Ukraine, with western military aid, is going to take care of destroying the Russian military.
The West will, in turn, make sure to devastate the Russian economy; this is going to lead to a full-fledged “political and economic collapse” for Moscow.
Former Russian colonel, Mikhail Khodarenok, appeared on Russian state TV and gave rare public criticism on the conduct of Russia's military operations in Ukraine https://t.co/LtddRKrKSp pic.twitter.com/43GH8SB65L
— CNN International (@cnni) May 18, 2022
Extraordinary exchange on Russian state TV’s top talk show about Ukraine. Military analyst & retired colonel Mikhail Khodarenok tells anchor Olga Skabeyeva “the situation for us will clearly get worse…we’re in total geopolitical isolation…the situation is not normal.” pic.twitter.com/ExMwVDszsk
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 16, 2022
Russia in Full ‘Geopolitical Solitude’
Perhaps even more remarkable than Temerko’s prediction are conclusions and warnings of a retired Soviet military colonel, made precisely on Russia’s biggest TV propaganda channel.
Earlier this week, Mikhail Khodarenok, a former air defense officer in the Soviet Union, shattered the main tenets of the Putin regime’s propaganda.
Khodarenok argued the war in Ukraine is “going badly” for Russia, while the nation is fully isolated from the entire world at the same time.
He insisted Ukraine’s military isn’t going to miraculously crumble, as Moscow propagandists keep insisting.
Instead, every Ukrainian soldier is prepared to die for their nation. Ukrainians are soon going to have a whopping one million men and women who are western-trained and equipped with top-notch western weapons and military technology.
Khodarenok even went further by insisting the nuclear war threats the Putin regime keeps making against the West don’t seem intimidating anymore, but may have become “amusing.”
Before the war started, the retired Soviet officer warned Ukraine was going to defend itself fiercely, in the event of an invasion.
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of May 18, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/EM0NQ2MRrk
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 18, 2022
A historic day.
Today, Finland and Sweden hand in letters expressing their countries’ interest to apply for #NATO membership to SG @jensstoltenberg. ⁰#FinlandNATO pic.twitter.com/5atdSykRmJ— Finland at NATO (@FinMissionNATO) May 18, 2022
⚡️ Governor: Russians hit school in Avdiivka with banned phosphorus bombs.
People inside managed to escape before the school was burned to the ground, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the local governor and head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said on May 18.
📷Pavlo Kyrylenko pic.twitter.com/yxkvDDJ8lm
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 18, 2022