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Crimea's Liberation Has Just Begun - Jason Jay Smart
Russian MPs are talking about printing money, a deficit near $153B, and the return of a 1992 shock, when prices rose 30% per week. German intelligence suggests the real deficit may be far larger than Moscow admits. That hidden gap could equal months of defense spending and entire civilian categories like healthcare, education, housing, utilities, environmental protection, and regional transfers.
Ukraine is hitting the roads, ferries, airfields, radar, fuel convoys, and truck traffic that keep Crimea supplied. The Kerch Bridge cannot replace the land corridor by itself. The R-280 and M-14/E58 highway system through Mariupol, Berdyansk, Melitopol, Henichesk, and Dzhankoi is now exposed to Ukrainian drones.
The last highway to Crimea is costing Russia trucks, fuel, and time. Crimea’s supply route is burning through convoys while Moscow faces hyperinflation panic at home. Russia still has ways into Crimea, but each one now demands more fuel, protection, repair, and money.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: How Putin Ruined Russia
02:38 - Empty Vaults: Russia Replays 1992 Financial Collapse
04:45 - Tsarist Ghosts: Why Putin Fears Autumn Revolution
06:40 - Oligarch War: Putin Seizes Russian Forbes Assets
07:59 - Logistics Trap: Ukraine Strangles Putin's Crimea Lifelines
12:17 - Shock Move: Ukraine Plots Mariupol's Liberation
14:19 - Savings Raid: Kremlin Plunders Civilian Russian Accounts
Ukraine is hitting the roads, ferries, airfields, radar, fuel convoys, and truck traffic that keep Crimea supplied. The Kerch Bridge cannot replace the land corridor by itself. The R-280 and M-14/E58 highway system through Mariupol, Berdyansk, Melitopol, Henichesk, and Dzhankoi is now exposed to Ukrainian drones.
The last highway to Crimea is costing Russia trucks, fuel, and time. Crimea’s supply route is burning through convoys while Moscow faces hyperinflation panic at home. Russia still has ways into Crimea, but each one now demands more fuel, protection, repair, and money.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: How Putin Ruined Russia
02:38 - Empty Vaults: Russia Replays 1992 Financial Collapse
04:45 - Tsarist Ghosts: Why Putin Fears Autumn Revolution
06:40 - Oligarch War: Putin Seizes Russian Forbes Assets
07:59 - Logistics Trap: Ukraine Strangles Putin's Crimea Lifelines
12:17 - Shock Move: Ukraine Plots Mariupol's Liberation
14:19 - Savings Raid: Kremlin Plunders Civilian Russian Accounts