Well some of my ideas might be unworkable. But others I think are likely to find America/GATO's soft underbelly.
One of Putins real strengths is to not act emotionally and irrationally and just use methods of attack that could backfire or could simply do more damage to Russia that to the party you intend to hit.
The problem really is to damage the US directly and those driving all this bullshit, but not in a way they will respond to it by escalating further.
Russia's crucial error is that its former red lines were deleted... on multiple occasions, far too many infact.
The red lines were crossed and this conflict is the result of it... there was no chance of their concerns being met in the previous situation, but now I think the chances are pretty good they are going to get the outcome they want.
AMerica is attacking Russia. But Russia is not attacking America. So America will inevitably hit Russia more... and harder! Russia's stance makes absolutely ZERO sense whatsoever. Its basically encouraging further attacks.
For over a decade Russia has known it has no future with the west and the obvious solution is to cut all ties and go its own way, but trading with the west is too easy even if it has no future prospects... increasing sanctions were always going to happen because the west is basically not happy that Russia is not a fawning little bitch like the west is, and the goal was always to either break Russia or break Russia up.
The point is that Russia wins if the US continues to cut Russia off from the west... that is already doing more damage to the west and Russia is finding that the entire rest of the world is there to do business with and on more equal terms than the west would ever allow so there is not just a future there but a good future for both Russia and the rest of the world.
The US escalating and doing stupid things just accelerates the split with the west and Russia should be thankful they are doing this because lots of very rich Russians probably like the west more than they like Russia because money is power but it is unbridled power in the west.
Russia just needs to remain intact and continue to look to the rest of the world... being cut out of SWIFT was supposed to be the mega sanction that broke them... I would say Russian banks all withdrawing from SWIFT so any international banks or organisations wanting to work with Russian goods would need to join whatever money transfer system Russia and the rest of the world set up to allow transactions to happen... if the west wants to buy Russian energy or materials then they will need to join such a system making SWIFT redundant and less useful... a blunt weapon of the US.
New sanctions make Russia buy old ships for transporting oil and gas which they can use while building up a fleet of new ships to continue the trade for themselves so European shipping companies no longer skim the cream of Russian energy exports, and of course non western insurance companies can make money too...
The so called attacks by the US on Russia increase Russias independence in trade and cut away all the little third party ways the west made even more money from Russia and other countries with international trade that would otherwise have nothing to do with them.
This is all a good thing and Putin should thank the west for being so stupid.
No, dedollarisation is NOT attacking America. Its simply showing freedom of choice and was inevitable when America attacked Russia. The level of control over the Pukraine by the US is like Russia taking over Puerto Rico and giving it nukes to fire at America.
Dedollarisation requires more than just one country to do it and over time countries will see that the US uses its money like a weapon and the only way to protect yourself is to use your own or someone elses money instead... that will be a serious kick to the US... they are desperately trying to spend money on their infrastructure now while it has value and can buy concrete and other materials because soon it is not going to be worth much because of the rate they are printing it...
2)Moving, on and looking at types of counter escalation. Well I suspect cyber attacks on the US would cause the US far more harm than similar ones to Russia. Imagine Yandex down vs Facebook, Twatter, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a massive host of military, civil and other tech systems down in the US. It would be at a standstill pretty soon.
Russia might have some inconveniences too. But nowhere near the USA.
The problem is that once you cross that line it can't be uncrossed and nobody wants to be the one to open Pandoras box.
Ultimately the American public (and some politicians) might thing "this is stupid it is going nowhere, lets try and get an agreement with the Russians).
What Russia actually needs to do is find the people with the big money pushing conflict with Russia and to a lessor extend with China and hit them where it hurts and maybe they might back down but I wouldn't count on it.
I still think the best solution is to continue to grind down the Orcs til the next lot decide they want to live and don't want to die for America or Zelensky... it seems to me that the US is looking at the territory of the Ukraine and all the wealth it has in the ground... whether that is soil or other materials... I honestly think Russia is going to have to take it all from them...
One sideshow that will continue (as little punishment): the French will be thrown out of Africa
The French have been there long enough and only seem interested in the locals paying them rent, they are not interested in solutions or making life better for the locals so kicking them out just makes sense.
Western economies are thrown under the bus, the economies of the largest industrial countries in Europe are losing the remnants of competitiveness in front of China.
The US is talking about dealing with China after they just threw the EU under the bus over Russia... it is hilarious... especially when the US asks for Russian help against China like they are currently asking for Chinese help against Russia...
That is the level the US is at...
This just isn't true. Syria was the most expensive CIA program ever and they shipped tons of manpads in. This is in the record. I guess there was just less bodies in Syria ? But its not like all 500-700,000 Ukraine soldiers were strolling around outside with a Manpad on their back in Feb 2022.
The article knows this isn't true because it mentiones the Russian AF flew above 5km altitude to avoid MANPADS... if they didn't have any why would they bother?
I have been busy doing other things but I want to know is the war about to come to an end and has Russia defeated the Ukraine?
Why do you think any of us know?
The west is pumping money and weapons and support into Kiev and as long as they keep doing that the zombie will keep doing what it is told, but eventually they are going to fall over and not be able to get back up no matter how much money the west pumps into them.
The longer the range of weapons they send to Kiev the further back from Russian borders the Russian troops will have to push the Orcs to be safe.
Ukrainians living in that buffer zone might decide to join the Russian Federation which means the orcs will need to be pushed further back again, or when they get so far they might just want to be neutral... which will require security guarantees from Russia which will mean pushing the orcs out of range again anyway... notice the pattern?
The Iranian drone story is still up in the air as well. No one actually has a shred of evidence it was indeed coming from Iran or if Russia was indeed just building their own on same design, or what not. We don't know what was on the planes between the countries.
The story seems to be that Russia has been looking at Iranian drones for years and presumably tested some in Syria and decided years ago to licence produce it with the factories being built before this conflict even started.
They weren't used at the start of the conflict because big slow targets are easy to shoot down, but when they started using them the Orc air defences had been depleted to the point that most if not all would get through.
These are Russian drones modified with Russian parts and Russian compatible equipment.
Cmn' bro ...
You are just deluding yourself now.
But of course Iranians supply.
Iran says no, and Russia say no, the US and the EU and Britain say yes... so you believe the nazi supporters?
However, getting rid of him will sent out a strong message to the NATO leaders that others can also be targeted thereby creating a whole lot of fear in their mind.
American politicians have been talking about murdering Putin for quite some time... playing that game would make the west very happy because that is a game they would love to play... it suits their ethics and morals.
The only leadership Putin could legitimately top would be Zelensky and his gang.... at some point Putin has to say there is no negotiating with Zelensky, perhaps it is time to talk to someone else in Kiev about options for peace, but all the reasonable parties have been banned so eliminating the current leadership is an attempt to allow more cool heads to take power.