Name one transgender US general. What is with your Putin brown nosers and obsession with LGBTQ? Seems the only reason you support Russia is because they are bigots.
Russia has as many troops as the US Here is a good report about Russia weapons Russia Isn’t Going to Run Out of Missiles https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-isnt-going-run-out-missiles
If Russia raises the intrest rate, their economy (what is left from it) will crash completely. Rumble in the rouble causes trouble.
One of the main reasons that Ukraine is harassing Moscow, Belgorod, Crimea etc is to force the Russians to move more troops and air defenses there and keep them out of Ukraine. That's actually working pretty well. And after the Prigo insurrection, Putin called lots of troops back to Moscow. The problem as always is that - although that strategy is working- the Ukrainians are always outnumbered in troops and equipment. They are smart though to not get sucked into trying to cross over the minefields regardless of how frustrating it is for the TV watchers. They have to preserve troops - sending kids into the meatgrinder is something the Russians do. Then they rinse and repeat. Ukraine can't afford to do that and also does not have the desire to do that- unlike the Russians. Ukraine seems to be compensating by going back to their strategy last winter which is to concentrate on taking out rail, bridges, and ammo depots rather than going into the meat grinder. There are hundreds of thousands of Russians in those defense line trenches but if they are not supplied they will feel it sooner or later.
At the start of the Ukraine war maybe. Not no more. Last big war the US lost a lot of lives was VietNam - 58,220 over more than 15 years Russia has lost about that many over the past 15 months.
(Semafor) Ruble’s fall accelerates Russia’s ruble fell below 100 to the dollar, its lowest level since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A growing reliance on imports, falling exports, and surging military spending pushed the currency down, a long-running drop that has accelerated in recent weeks. The ruble plummeted following the February 2022 invasion, but recovered thanks to a spike in prices for Russia’s energy exports. Goldman Sachs economists warned that the combination of factors driving the ruble lower would also constrain Russian economic growth, while the economist Joseph Politano wrote in his newsletter that the country had “survived the initial wave of sanctions, but as the war continues it is becoming a larger draw on Russia’s limited pool of economic resources.”
Never spoke of Russian rouble strength or weakness in your quoted post by me. Just shows how piss stupid you are.