I provided the article to provide clarification on Putin's perspective. I was not engaged in the discussion regarding Chinese and Indian currency except to point out the Russian economy is in significant decline irrespective of what currency is used in trades with China or India. I would make the point -- that the Chinese currency transactions simply put Russia in the pocket of China. Further making Russia a vassal state of China.
Also confirms my earlier claims that Russia far from mobilized its entire resources to the front in Ukraine. The current allocation is a drop in the bucket. So small that even a few prisoners and convicts make up the difference from the removal of an entire mercenary army. The claim by western woke media that Russia is at its limits in terms of military resources is laughable.
Russia has deployed 97% of it army to Ukraine. At this point, the Ukraine war has eliminated 50% of the Russian land-based military forces, half of its tanks, and a large portion of its air force. Is this merely a "drop in the bucket"? Let's take a look at the recent figures on Russian losses.
“The Russian army has lost half of its combat effectiveness in Ukraine, including as many as 2,500 tanks, and the main push of Kyiv’s counter-offensive is still to come, the head of Britain’s armed forces has said,” the Financial Times reports. Said Admiral Sir Tony Radakin: “Russia is now so weak that it does not have the strength for its own counter-offensive.”
That can't possibly be true. It would open up the country to even a minor incursion at any other part of the country. Sounds more like the same bs claims than the insistence of British forces and agencies of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Zero credibility.
One of you village idiots' sources says 4062 tanks, the other 2500 tanks. Lol. But hey, those are just rounding errors in the British army. Probably why the Germans had a field day in Britain and why Tony Blair saw nothing but weapons of mass destruction. Too much lsd.