Thread by @TrentTelenko

The use of crippled/wounded Russian men as soldiers is not the only or even the most important indicator that Russia has hit the mobilization wall⬇️

Nor are female prisoners, foreign mercs or DPRK soldiers.

Russia is now deploying Hitlerjugend-esque child-soldiers.

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https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1808514147446915561

This trial use of 17 year olds by Putin reported by Ukraine's Center for National Resistance (CNR) closely mirrors the Hitlerjugend Division of the Waffen SS in the Normandy summer of 1944.

The end game of this desperation measure...

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ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/388…

...in Feb/Mar 1945 was the Waffen SS using 14 year old kids.

Per the CNR Report:

"Currently, Russia is actively recruiting members of patriotic movements, in particular, the network of military education centers "Warrior" and "Yunarmiya" (Young Army). Teenagers aged 17

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...are being actively recruited to military enlistment offices to sign a contract upon reaching the age of majority,""

You don't have to be @PeterZeihan to see the demographic disaster this represents for Russia.

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Russian economics are in nearly the same position as Russian manpower.

The bar chart below showing the temporal speed with which a Trillion rubles in the state budget is being spent.

Is Russia spending more or is it inflation?

The answer is _YES_!
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https://x.com/jakluge/status/1808232113520468438

A lot of the Russian GDP numbers you see are inflated by Western Keynesian economist book keeping delusion, post WW2, that artillery shells and missiles are a positive contributor towards national wealth.

They simply are not...

...and never have been

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Shells and missiles are in fact hazardous toxic waste worth far less than the raw material and labor inputs.

Anyone who as worked on demilitarizing old US cluster munitions past EPA annual pollution burn requirements for TNT knows this in their gut.

Keynesians? Not so much.
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Disproving that the WW2 American economy "grew," rather than turned useful economic output into hazardous toxic waste, is a big reality based 'ask' for Keynesian Economists from the 1940's onwards.

This delusion colors our policies towards Russia today.
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But that Keynesian GDP delusion is remarkably useful for "Escalation Managers" who are trying to sell "Russia Strong" to maintain their policies and phoney baloney jobs.

Even when you visually see that Russian motor transport is rapidly devolving ⬇️

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https://x.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1808145972649693338

...like that Russian DIY leading edge conveyor above.

Nor is that the only place we are seeing Russian motor transport hitting the same mobilization wall as Russian manpower.

See RuAF WW2/1950's era motorcycle casevac⬇️

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https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1806938456574038496

Another post WW2 delusion supporting the "Russia Strong" narrative with the Keynesians GDP delusions is Western Logistical intelligence refusing to see Mobik animal labor logistics for 80 years.

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https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1807198742522536405

80% of the time involved in every Soviet/Russian truck logistical movement was spent loading and unloading the truck.

Col Ralph Peters & others looking at Soviet Afghanistan logistics saw it from 1979 to 1989...

...yet the delusion remained.

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https://x.com/AntaresTuitero/status/1807345478020857876

Russian manpower, economics and motor transport are all headed towards Lanchester Square collapse in close formation.

But Western elites cannot see it any more than they saw the collapse of the Soviet Union coming.

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The summation of decaying Russian manpower, economic and motor transport trends makes Frederick W. Lanchester smile.

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