1. First, since the arrival of the Oligarch 'reality' (1990)....you can figure of every hundred Rubles destined for military infrastructure.....a minimum of 25-percent went into the pockets of the Oligarch folks....maybe even up to 50-percent.
So you end up with a military that could take on NATO in 1990....to a military that cannot even handle the Ukraine in 2022.
When all the smoke clears and the war ends? You can presently assume that the Oligarch money path will continue, and the Russian military will just grow weaker.
2. Presently, it's figured around 1-million Russians have left the country, and I might go to suggest that another 1-million will leave by early spring 2023. These weren't welfare cases or dimwits....they were college graduate folks. This was the crowd that you really couldn't afford to lose.
3. As much as you want to believe in 'mother-Russia' as a Russian citizen....you have to be standing there and wondering just how Putin came up with this idea, and if there's any value to the 'Nazis in Ukraine' BS.
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