If it goes on, it is a catastrophe for Russian oil trade. The Black Sea being closed to the shadow fleet reduces significantly their exportations while the Russian economy is already in pain...

Shocking! What is anti-corruption defense doing?

Bah, I'm sure they have the money to repair it...hold on, the Kremlin is already diverting some of the cash to repair more oil refineries...

One might think that after proclaiming the victory of Assad and Putin in Syria for a good decade as 'inevitable', the media would begin to seriously assess what they did wrong...alas, it is far from the case.

No matter how you look at it, those are very big sums of money...I doubt Moscow is going to be happy paying for this economic carnage.

It is, yes.

I want to know how high the copium dose was last night, as well as the degree purity of the fluid.
It is a lot of high-grade pure copium defended by cope cages, comrades!

And it took two World Wars, several economic crises, and other problems to bring them down, not raw stupidity.

Bad omens like them building the biggest fleet this world has ever seen?
I am thankfully not a naval specialist, but I've always felt that you build a fleet with the intention to use it. It can be for defense or offense, as with all war-related equipment.
Except they don't need it for defense...

It's certainly a possibility, but I don't think Xi is ready for that...yet. Of course, October 2028 is still far away. A lot can happens in three years.

Social expenses from 38 to 25%. Yikes.
In any non-dictatorial country (and even several who are), the government would be a tad bit...unpopular.
And I must note social spending in Russia was extremely low compared to many European countries...