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TexasTowelie

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Mon Dec 1, 2025, 08:07 PM 16 hrs ago

Kremlin's Massive Korean Ammo Disaster - Jason Jay Smart



The Russian military is undergoing a humiliating devolution. Elite heavy tanks are being replaced by unarmored "golf carts" that soldiers call coffins on wheels. This video exposes why Moscow is sending troops into battle in recreational vehicles and what this reveals about their strategic failure.

The crisis deepens with ammunition. The Kremlin is begging North Korea for artillery shells, but reports describe a massive dud rate. These defective rounds are destroying Russian barrels and killing their own crews. This battlefield collapse is mirrored by a domestic economic disaster. Inflation has forced supermarkets to lock basic butter in anti-theft security cases to prevent mass shoplifting.

We also analyze the financial ruin of Gazprom. The energy giant has posted historic losses after failing to blackmail Europe. Now, Russia is a distressed asset to Beijing, paying a massive war tax on Chinese imports. This is the reality of a superpower becoming a vassal state, trapped in an irreversible spiral of inflation and dependency.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - The Real Cost of Pokrovsk: Russia's Insane Troop Loss Ratio
05:09 - The $17,000 Coffin: Russia's Desperate Armored Vehicle Shortage
06:06 - Putin's Shell Hunger: 50% Failure Rate in North Korean Ammo
07:43 - Russia's Guns vs. Butter Crisis: Luxury Anti-Theft Butter Cases
09:04 - Gazprom's Historic $7 Billion Loss: China Dictates Terms
09:56 - The End of an Empire: Collapse on the Front, Rot in the Economy
13:03 - Outro
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