And That Is Without ...

... reference to REAL INDUSTRIAL output, which accounts also for spectrum of R&D which is simply beyond EU's capabilities. 

Professor Niall Ferguson from Hoover Institute gives the Slava Ukraini crowd a cold shower in the form of some cold hard facts about the Russian economy and the fact that sanctions have "failed utterly". The corrupt political class does NOT want you to hear this (Sep 2025)

This also explains (if it turns out to be true) a desire of two US military professionals (obviously on orders from Trump)  who DO have some ideas about SMO and REAL situation at the front to go to Moscow and see their Russian counterparts. 

Here is a fuller version of "Russia Is About To Collapse" debunking and these are just a few points:

I sat through yet another Times Radio interview in which “expert” Diane Francis confidently told us yet again that Russia was on the brink of military and economic collapse. My quick search of the Times Radio content on YouTube revealed that this Murdoch outlet has been forecasting Russia’s imminent collapse on a monthly basis for well over three years, beginning with the predictions of Ben Hodges III, a Leftist retired U.S. general and a relentless war-monger.

The other salient point is this: 

The “experts” that Times Radio platforms seem to have two main characteristics. Firstly, they have a deep-seated dislike of Russia and, secondly, they are funded by arms industry and Ukrainian billionaire funded “think-tanks”. Until recently, Ben Hodges was the “Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies” at CEPA (the Centre for European Policy Analysis based (confusingly) in Washington) with a salary of USD 200,000 per annum. Diane Francis is a “Senior Non-Resident Fellow” at the Atlantic Council, receiving an unknown but likely large amount in this capacity. No academic qualifications nor processes underpin the lofty titles handed out by “think tanks”. The titles are part of the intellectual cosplay of pretending to be centres of study, rather than arms industry fronts pushing war propaganda. The “analysis” is, for the most part, fact-free and relies on dishonesty and largely fabricated statistics. I thought that it would be interesting to look at some actual statistics reported by Russia.

It is not only fabricated statistics, but it is also inherent inability to deal with it assuming that they are provided a genuine one. It is overall weakness of West's military education for officer corps and an extremely rigid and backward approach to operational planning and operations based on ... yes--fabricated military history, statistics and inability to grasp COFM (Correlation Of Forces and Means), including the role of force multipliers such as Air Defense of which US military has no experience whatsoever. And then, of course, comes corruption within Military-Industrial-Congressional-Media Complex and decades of drinking own Kool Aid without understanding the realities of continental warfare. 

I want to reiterate--this is the result of NATO's planning and these are the numbers no officer in Pentagon has any grasp of. This is just comparison between Vietnam War and SMO:

Or another, again, same thing but different view ...

And now that some corruption and money laundering schemes through 404 have been exposed, we may understand why Europe is so desperate. 

European and Ukrainian officials have rejected Donald Trump’s latest proposal for a lopsided peace deal that favors Moscow, warning that caving in to Russia will only encourage Vladimir Putin to attack NATO next. 

Yeah, sure. Russia sleeps and dreams how to put on her neck a bunch of paupers with no resources, filled with hatred of Russia and the whole idea of cleaning Paris alone is terrifying for Russians. 

Yep, the city of lights, alright.