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Bloomberg:Putin's financial situation grows increasingly dire.
His gold reserves are running low. He's cut off from SWIFT. He's increasingly at the mercy of China's Yuan & cryptocurrency manipulations. He's required to bank through Iran, a lethal combination of corruption & Islamic ideological purity.
Republicans used to believe in the harsher aspects of Darwinian "moral hazard" and adore it when the vulnerable crash & burn financially.
@Npars01 I hope Trump isn’t giving him added strength though
I read one report that Ukraine's ability to block missiles dropped from 90% to 50% with the ending of US Intel. So, effectively, Trump doubled Putin's firepower with that one move - while also reducing Ukraine's ability to respond.
That intel relies on satellite imagery & on-the-ground spies.
Spies are cheap & Eutel is getting its act together to replace Starlink
In fact, a European funded spying system is more likely to succeed.
Closer to home. More motivated. Shorter supply chain & fewer possible points of failure.
The CIA is hopelessly compromised by GOP partisans & Trump's loose lips killed a lot of assets.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/
https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/cia-reports-dozens-of-informants-arrested-or-killed/
