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TexasTowelie

(125,092 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 09:41 AM Yesterday

Putin's "Secret Plan" Leaked - Jason Jay Smart



The Russian Federation is currently executing a financial liquidation that mortgages sovereign stability for immediate war funding. Official ministry data indicates federal budget deficits will persist for decades as the state consumes vast capital for defense and security operations. This unprecedented spending rate is driving a liquidity crisis where mortgage rates have spiked to unsustainable levels and core consumer inflation has accelerated rapidly. Corruption has evolved from simple graft into a foundational business model where parliamentary influence and foreign policy decisions are auctioned to the highest bidder.

Declassified intelligence confirms massive off the book spending to secure international leverage even as domestic infrastructure capital is diverted to the front. The Kremlin has effectively trapped the national economy in a long term cycle of debt and devaluation that creates unmanageable liabilities for the state. International markets and insurers must now price in the reality that Moscow is prioritizing short term regime survival over basic economic solvency. This structural decay suggests that Russian geopolitical capacity is being permanently eroded by internal theft and unsustainable fiscal leverage.

Investors and policymakers must recognize that this is not a war economy but a theft economy that undermines its own capacity to sustain conflict. The financial data indicates a fragile system held together by secrecy and temporary cash flows that cannot withstand prolonged isolation. Global markets must account for the sovereign risk of a nuclear power prioritizing corruption over basic economic stability.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: The Kremlin Is Imploding From Within
01:00 - Kremlin Corruption: Buying Power in the Duma
04:35 - Putin's War Budget: Theft as a Business Model
06:39 - Russia's Future: Economic Deficits Until 2042
08:34 - Putin's Elites: Cashing In While Citizens Suffer
11:22 - Soviet Parallels: Russia's War Against Itself
13:32 - Kremlin's Collapse: The Real Financial Front Line
15:03 - Outro
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Putin's "Secret Plan" Leaked - Jason Jay Smart (Original Post) TexasTowelie Yesterday OP
American billionaires are smarter than this Turbineguy Yesterday #1
Oh no, they're not Warpy Yesterday #2

Turbineguy

(39,790 posts)
1. American billionaires are smarter than this
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 09:46 AM
Yesterday

but trump isn't.

There's a limit to the amount you can steal before you collapse an economy.

Warpy

(114,360 posts)
2. Oh no, they're not
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 03:03 PM
Yesterday

which is why they billionaire tech bros are forcing a pro Russia stand on this country, they really think they can divvy the world up into 3 major spheres of influence, each presided over by a plutocrat whose money has conferred infinite wisdom on him.

Whadday think those tariffs are about? Where did that cockamamie idea about buying Greenland come from? Who came up with the insulting crap about annexing Canada? Whose bright idea was it to shove JD Vance into the VP slot?

Yeah, them.

We'll never be able to convnce them that money doesn't confer wisdom, either.

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