When you see a lefty Leninist fossil quoting the billionaire buyer who paid $44bn for Twitter and made it safe for Putinist Proud Boys and other MAGA cultists, you know something's up in the Russia genocide apologist ecosystem. Musk's calculations of Ukrainian and Russian artillery assets are as good as his calculations of a good price to pay for Twitter.
It's a mark of desperation in the face of defeat that he calls on Biden to become Neville Chamberlain 1938 and negotiate about Ukraine without Ukraine, as if Ukraine, Britain, Finland, Sweden and all the frontline former Warsaw Pact and the Baltic states would go along. Fat chance.
The hundreds of intercepted calls from Russian soldiers tell a very different story compared to the neo-Stalinist rant by the video of toxic Russian redneckery pitched as "evidence": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=insights+from+ukraine+and+russia
On July 16 ISW published this analysis of the spread of insubordination and degradation of the chain of command in the Russian army as more commanders get fired for telling the truth: that the Russian edge in artillery shell expenditure simply doesn't translate into combat power and results because of corruption and incompetence at the top:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-16-2023
Russia's useful idiots in the West repeatedly cite shell expenditure as a sign of military invincibility when the opposite is true. The more shells uselessly expended without counter battery radar, the faster Russia exhausts its Soviet inheritance and uses up its gun barrels. https://jamestown.org/program/russia-struggles-to-maintain-munition-stocks-part-two/
A realistic and data-driven analysis of the cluster munitions story is available from Australian defense economist Perun. Suffice it to say that Ukraine has decided that their soldiers' lives saved now from using them against Russian fortifications outweigh the risks to postwar civilians in areas that will require mass mine-clearing ops. And the Russians started using them four days into the war anyway : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcUe47xerQ&t=3018s
As far as US bankruptcy goes, remember Mark Twain: reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated. The US debt/GDP ratio is half the 225% figure of the UK in 1815, even less after accounting for the Social Security Administration as holder of 30% of t-bills and bonds. Of course, Mr. Wight will never, ever publish screenshots of his trades shorting US treasuries to show he puts his money where his mouth is, because financial literacy is not his sphere of competence. So he doesn't. His financial forecasts are full of the same hot air as Chief Twit Musk's tweets and the Russian soldier video rant he posted. Bet against both.
