Putin Scrambles For Cash As Russian Treasury Runs Dry

Описание: As Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine continue, the Russian state itself is sliding toward catastrophe.
Four years of full-scale war have devastated Russia’s economy. The National Wealth Fund has been heavily looted and now holds less in liquid assets than the net worth of any single individual among the top 25 U.S. billionaires. Oil and gas revenues collapsed by 46 percent in January, stripping the Kremlin of its primary source of cash.
Inside Russia, the consequences are becoming impossible to hide. Public transportation systems are breaking down in multiple cities. A nationwide healthcare crisis is unfolding as a critical shortage of doctors leaves hospitals unable to function. Aging infrastructure has failed even in Moscow, with entire districts left without heating in winter conditions.
Russian propagandists and military bloggers are in open panic as more shadow-fleet tankers are seized abroad, tightening the financial noose. At the same time, Vladimir Putin is expanding arrests of critics and tightening repression as public frustration grows.
This video also covers a series of surreal and revealing moments from inside Putin’s collapsing system:
– An American arrested in Russia after traveling to meet a woman he met online, arriving by sailboat
– Soviet-era propaganda posters resurfacing that warn citizens never to leave televisions unattended “because they explode”
– An apartment building in Russian-occupied Donetsk flooded with sewage
– The rollout of a fake Putin double for a propaganda appearance
– A severely wounded Russian veteran, missing both arms and legs, presented with a laptop as a political photo opportunity
Meanwhile, Kyiv continues to live, work, and resist under fire, with parties and daily life continuing despite ongoing missile attacks.
This is what late-stage collapse looks like: repression, decay, propaganda, and denial, all accelerating at once.