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Indicators of Who Will Win the War in Ukraine - Russia won the economic, geopolitical, legal, and military wars
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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. The topic of this article is spread through six articles, this one being the last in this series/segment (read the first one, please).
When we discuss the Indicators of Who Will Win the War in Ukraine[*], we include here the list of side-effects (besides the sorry state of Ukraine, omens, celestial powers, history lessons, and collective level of consciousness, not to mention the realities on the battlefields).
So, another in an extensive list of indicators of who will win this war and whom celestial and world powers favor are side-effects in form of economical, geopolitical, and legal gains, apart from military victories.
Astounding is the fact that when it comes to side-effects of this war, there is absolutely none of them that disfavor Russia while there are plenty that disfavor Ukraine and NATO countries and their allies (Australia[+][+], S. Korea[+], Japan[+]), which is yet another sign that the world and God are siding with Russia.
Whatever the West tries to do to harm Russia, it ends up harming itself more. While they keep on scheming to harm Russia, all their attempts play into the Russian hands.
Whereas Ukraine is losing everything on all fronts (military, economic, geopolitical, ideological, etc.), Russia is winning on all fronts:
Russia won the economic war that the West initiated against it
If we are to trust the Rothschild-owned (the largest shareholders of) The Economist, a British publication with close ties to British secret intelligence MI-6, as of December 2024[+], “Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia”, believe it or not! Never mind that Ukraine's economy is one-quarter smaller than in 2021 while Russia's economy is 19%[+] bigger (2021 vs 2024), because all the average citizen in the West minds is such headlines coming from “trustworthy” mainstream media.
In January 2024, then-British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said[+][+] that GDP of countries that support Ukraine is 25 times higher than Russia's, nevertheless their economies shrunk during the war, while Russia's economy grew!
Despite the draconian sanctions against Russia (28.595[+] sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities) since 2014, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook updates[+][+], the Russian economy outperformed all the NATO countries in 2023 and 2024. In 2024, the Eurozone's GDP growth was 0,9% while Russia's was 4,1%[+] (same as in 2023, despite 28.595[+] sanctions)! Russia outpaced[+] all G7 countries in terms of economic growth rates. If this is not humiliating, then what is? And not just Russia but BRICS – the G7 (the self-proclaimed Great 7 are not great at all, not on the map and not in economic power) had 1,9% growth in 2024 while BRICS had 4,9% (in Russia, it's 4,1% two years in a row). NATO leaders keep on lying how Russia's economy is in tatters[+][»][+] while clearly projecting as it is their economies that are in tatters, especially in the EU. It's like a drowning person mocking someone on a raft for sinking 😊.
By 2024, Western mainstream media started admitting in one way or another that Ukraine can't possibly defeat Russia on the battlefield by making headlines like[+] “Ukraine’s best hope may be a faltering Russian economy.” Well, if that is their best hope (and probably the only hope), then they are doomed because it ain’t gonna happen. Russian economy is anything but faltering. Some dumb Western and Kyiv propagandists flare every time Russian currency, the ruble, devalues using it as proof how Russian economy is in tatters, exposing their ignorance of the states’ financial tactics of deliberately undervaluing their currency to make their exports more competitive. Don’t those journalists look at the economic reports? We wonder about their cognitive dysfunction, so let's fix that by pointing at just a few of undisputable facts about Russian economy:
✅ Russia's economy grows[ꚛ][ꚛ] and is soaring[+] while the Western economies decline decline[+][+][»][+][+][+][»] or are in recession.
According to the IMF – International Monetary Fund[+][+], Russia's economy grows and is expected to further grow faster than all advanced economies. It is better than Germany’s[+][ꚛ] and all the other countries in Europe (not just the EU but also better than in Switzerland, the UK, etc.)[+]. Despite being the most sanctioned country on the planet[+][ꚛ], Russia still manages to come at the top. Russia has no national debt, while Western countries are drowning in debt. Russia has trade surplus[+] (more exports than imports) while the West has trade deficit. By June 2025, the EU lost[+] 200 billion euros by rejecting Russian gas. Western “experts” thought sanctions would cripple Russia but they crippled the West[+][+], proving right the Bible[+] and Torah[+] proverb: “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it.” For the Russians, another proverb proves right: What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Despite the war and all the draconian sanctions, GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)[?] in Russia keeps improving and has outdone[+][+][ꚛ][ꚛ][+] Germany and Japan! It ranks as 4th best in the world, better than all the other countries in Europe – not just the EU but also better than in Switzerland, the UK, etc.[+], as evidenced by statistics from Western sources sources (IMF, World Bank, Wikipedia[+]…). Predatory US, UK, and EU are in decline while Russia is on the rise with its thriving economy[ꚛ]. It's one of the best in the world[+][ꚛ][+] also when it comes to trade balance and no debt[+]. Putin is genius.
EU leaders arrogantly claimed that the sanctions against Russia and the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT system (international financial clearing system) would bring Russia to its knees. But bears don't have knees 😊. So, they planned to bring the Russian economy to its knees, and through through sanctions, they envisioned Russian political elite would then overthrow Putin, as if Russian political elite is so dumb to comply to their wishful thinking. If anything, sanctions have turned them more against the EU and towards Putin as they can understand more why Putin is against the senseless EU officials who are too dumb to realize that sanctions are only making Russia stronger and the EU weaker. By June 2025, they issued[+] 18 sanction packages and still haven’t grasped the effects. Von der Leyen be like “When you fail 17 times … don’t give up! 18 is the charm!”😊 As we watch events unfold, we are reminded of the wisdom of Mike Tyson, who once said that “Everyone has a plan, till they get punched in the mouth” 😊. Turns out, Russia's economy runs on vodka...and spite 😊.
In the midst of war and draconian sanctions (by mid-March 2025, 28.595[+] sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities), Russia has advanced from the upper-middle-income to the high-income category on the strength of its economic growth, according to the World Bank’s annual national income rankings[+]. They also reported increases in both real (3.6%) and nominal (10.9%) GDP, and Russia’s Atlas GNI1 per capita grew by 11.2%.
In 2022, Russia recorded its highest ever account surplus, due to two reasons: Russian exports value increased as a result of growth in global prices for raw materials because of Western sanctions on Russia, and a record-breaking trade surplus[+][+] (higher exports, lower imports) and in 2025, it become the top 3[+] countries in the world – also because of Western sanctions on Russia.
While imposing sanctions on Russia, the West has helped Russia gain higher profits from its exports and a greatest trade surplus ever, which has helped finance Russia’s SMO2! Foolish West keeps on sanctioning Russia and so finances Russia's war machine! In 2023, the US, UK, India, and France had the worst trade deficit in the world[+]! In 2023, Russia was in the top 7[+] in trade balance ranking and in 2025, it surged to the top 3[+] position, behind China and Germany. Russia is rocking! The sanctions are clearly working. God bless the sanctions, Russians say.
The declining EU economy is in recession, above all Germany's economy, which is based on industry that used to profit from Russia's cheap fossil fuels. After cutting itself from Russian natural resources by imposing sanctions on Russia, the German economy fell into recession and has suffered from deindustrialization and other self-inflicted damage. A classic case of shooting yourself in the foot and then complaining about the limp😊. Oopsie daisy! Despite being the most sanctioned country on the planet, Russia's economy is better than Germany’s[+][ꚛ] and all the other countries in Europe (not just the EU but also better than in Switzerland, the UK, etc.)[+]. German “experts” thought it was a good idea to sanction Russia and so to drive it to sell its cheap gas to Asia instead of Germany and Europe, making Asian industries thrive while producing cheaper goods. Due to competition from Asia and higher energy costs, which make the German production unsustainable, production capacity scaled back significantly – such as with Duisburg’s Thyssen Krupp Steel[+]. Europe is paying a huge price for sanctioning Russia. Hungary alone lost 19 billion Euros in 3 years because of sanctions[»].
In early 2025, upon Trump being re-elected, the Western countries started to sanction each other with huge tariffs[+][»][+], which has a devastating effect on their economies pushing them further into decline. Russia, China, and their allies did not have to do anything but sit and watch how their rivals in the West self-destroy themselves.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told[+] lawmakers in April 2024 that the Russian economy is growing while becoming less reliant on oil and gas exports (less dependent on the export of the raw materials).
✅ The government’s revenue is increasing, allowing Moscow to finance growth and development projects, and to meet social obligations. The federal budget income surpassed 29 trillion rubles ($314 billion) in 2023, a rise of almost 5% compared to 2022. Russia’s GDP increased by 3,6% in 2023, more than double the average growth reported by most developed nations over the same period, which amounted to 1,6%.
✅ Total industrial output grew by 3.5% and the manufacturing sector demonstrated growth of 7,5%.
✅ The unemployment rate was cut by half by the end of 2023 decreasing to 3%, and in June 2024, it was down to 2%[+], when Putin said[»] that 15-20 years ago it was hard to find a job and now (under his great leadership) it is hard to find personnel.
✅ Russia also witnessed record high investments in 2023, which grew by 10% and reached the highest level in 12 years. Inflation was reduced from 11,9% to 7,4%. The nation’s debt is at 17% of GDP, which is far lower than in the West.
✅ The external debt of the Russian Federation decreased by 17.7%, or $68.2 billion, over the course of 2023 – as of 1 January 2024, it decreased to $316.8 billion. Moscow has also managed to circumvent a trade blockade imposed by the West in a form of sanctions.
✅ Russia’s trade volume with “friendly nations” surpassed $548 billion in 2023, which was roughly equal to the turnover Russia had with the whole world, including the Western nations, in 2019.
With all these developments, clearly, God is on Russia's side. And with all these developments, in particular Russia's economic and also societal resilience, clearly, everything we have been told for years about the allegedly weak and poor Russia was nothing but lies. So, the way that Russia is described to us – as a rigid neo-Stalinist autocracy – is false. And we should remove from power and punish all those Western propagandists who have been deceiving us.
✅ Russian ruble has been crowned world’s best-performing currency almost every year – in May 2022[+], in November 2023[+], and again in April 2025[+], as dollar declined. The ruble strengthened 38% versus the dollar on the over-the-counter market since the beginning of 2025, according to data compiled by Bloomberg[+]. Remember when in March 2022, Biden claimed[+] that the ruble was reduced to rubble? Just a month and half later it was his dollar that was reduced to rubble! Or, dollar is a faller! Proving the Bible's Proverb 26:27[+] to be true: “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.” Looks like Putin got the last laugh!
✅ Russian banks made a record profit[+] in 2023 despite the war and all the draconian sanctions against Russia! Russia banks’ profits rose in 2023 not just a little but 16 times compared to 2022 when the profits also rose 90% compared to 2021! 2023 boom was driven by demand for discount mortgages[+] and loans to finance large business acquisitions[+]. Russian businesses have been buying up assets from international firms that left the market. As it turns out, this is what happens when a country leaves the Western financial system and is able to function optimally. The benefits of national sovereignty. The right to freely develop own economy and markets independent of foreign control or interference.
✅ Russian energy giant Gazprom made a record profit[+] in 2024 with a net profit of ₽1.22 trillion ($14.8B). It’s the sixth-largest ruble profit in 25 years, driven by rising gas exports to China and favorable currency effects.
✅ Russian oligarchs made a record profit[+] in 2023 despite the war and all the draconian sanctions against them (by mid-March 2025, 28.595[+] sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities)!
The collective net worth of Russia’s richest persons has soared by $72 billion to $577 billion in 2023, despite unprecedented sanctions pressure, according to Forbes annual World’s Billionaires List[+]. Vagit Alekperov, former president of Russian oil giant Lukoil, leads the ranking as the richest Russian businessman – despite him being sanctioned by the West, his fortune has risen from $20,5 billion to $28,6 billion. Second-placed Leonid Mikhelson, a co-owner of Russia’s second-largest natural gas producer Novatek, had his wealth increasing by $5.8 billion to $27.4 billion. The number of Russian billionaires rose by 15 over the past year to 125 – Forbes says.
In 2024, Moscow ranked[+][+] second in the world in terms of the number of billionaire residents. There are 74 billionaires in the capital – 12 more than in 2023. The first position was taken by New York with 110 billionaires – 9 more than in 2023.
✅ Russia became the first in the world wheat exporter and world’s fourth largest agricultural exporter. Revenue from such exports on the global market amounted to $43,5 billion. This is the first time in the Russia’s history that the agricultural sector has achieved such results. Russian food exports have been growing at a rapid pace.
✅ The BRICS+ growth and expansion[+] – the economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa has grown greatly during the war doubling from 5 to 10 members in short time. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and United Arab Emirates joined in January 2024 and Indonesia in January 2025. There are many other applicants[+][+] and many more expressed an interest in joining. As of January 2025[+], BRICS+ has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP (PPP). As of November 2024[+], BRICS countries collectively account for approximately 35% of the world's GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), compared to the G7's 30%. Between 2000 and 2023, BRICS+ expanded its share of global merchandise exports from 10.7% to 23.3%. There is no official BRICS currency or banknote just yet but a symbolic BRICS banknote[»][ꚛ] unveiled at 2025 SPIEF. Meanwhile, the UK has notes[ꚛ] with the face of a man who said he wishes he was a tampon[+][+].
Putin and Russia unintentionally succeeded in that which Libya's President Gaddafi and Iraq's President Saddam Hussein didn't and were killed for[»][+] in 2011 and 2006 (as exposed by Wikileaks’ Hillary Clinton's emails[+][+][+]) – setting a trend of countries reducing reliance on the US dollar as a reserve currency, or medium of exchange, which reduces the sway that the dollar holds over the global economy. This is why the US wants to oust Putin so badly and try to vilify him so hysterically. When the dollar loses its status at the top of the currency heap, the effects on the US economy would likely be dramatic. Borrowing costs in the US might move higher, making it more difficult to gain access to capital and more expensive to do business in the country. In a situation where the dollar is no longer king, the US stock market may also experience a drain in value. Perhaps more significantly, the US has long depended on the dollar’s role as a reserve currency to support running large deficits on government spending and international trade, so, with de-dollarization, the US loses this flexibility. De-dollarization will help level the playing field for economies outside the US, in particular Russia, China, and India. The US has misused the dominance of the dollar as a tool to promote and enforce its economic interests around the world, subjugating or overpowering other countries, which will no longer be possible. US Treasury Secretary[+] counts on that the global economy lacks viable alternatives to the financial architecture centered around the dollar, euro, and yen whereby, as usual by overconfident hegemons, underestimating the rivals such as BRICS+ creating[+] a new reserve currency to compete with the US dollar and a blockchain-based payment system.
The US dollar began to displace the pound sterling as international reserve currency from the 1920s since it emerged from the WWI and WWII relatively unscathed and since the US was a significant recipient of wartime gold inflows. The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 established the post-war international monetary system, with the US dollar ascending to become the world's primary reserve currency for international trade.
US went ‘overboard’ in weaponizing dollar with sanctions, pushing more countries around the world to slash transactions using the currency, Elon Musk has warned[+].
“We are not pursuing de-dollarization. We were denied the ability to transact in dollars. We are simply forced to look for other options… The U.S. is pushing this process forward through its own careless, unprofessional, and foolish actions.”[»] “We did not refuse nor fight the dollar, we were forbidden to use it … so we must look for alternatives” [»] – Putin essentially blames the US for the de-dollarization.
American investor Robert Kiyosaki has declared[+][+] that the "end" of the dollar has come, and hyperinflation will follow.
De-euroization – according to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications – money transfer messaging system) data in December 2024, the Euro's share in trading currency has fallen to a decade-low of 21%[+].
Moreover, we also need to point to de-SWIFTization, as many countries under sanctions are banned from SWIFT, which means that SWIFT is unable to record money transfers of those countries, including currency used. SWIFT data is turning less representative after currencies weaponization as big volume transactions are done outside the SWIFT system.
✅ Western boycott turned into a bonanza for Russia[+]
As hundreds of Western companies exited, their assets became a windfall for Russia’s loyal elite and the state itself. Zelensky urged them to do it as he inexpertly falsely predicted that it would help strangle the Russian economy and undermine the Kremlin’s war effort. This is what happens when a clown is running a show. Turns out, economic warfare isn't a laughing matter... unless you're Russia – Russia has laughed all the way to the bank. It has found not just significant benefits but also humor in what was intended to be a harmful. Turns out, economic warfare isn't as simple as a punchline, Mr. Clownsky😊. Thanks to dilettante Zelensky and his (we can only hope that is the correct pronoun[ꚛ][»][»]) Western backers who convinced, shamed, and sanctioned companies into leaving the Russian market, Western firms that gave up their Russian operations lost $107 billion from Russia exits[+][+] in the form of write-offs and lost profits, placing lucrative enterprises in Russian hands at discount prices and handing over at least $1,25 billion in exit taxes to the Russian state. Government-owned enterprises have acquired the assets of corporate giants like Ikea and Toyota. Russia lost nothing by the boycott as Western companies got into Russian hands and just got rebranded/renamed[»] – e.g. Starbucks has been reborn as Stars Coffee. The Dutch beer company Heineken sold its business in Russia for just $1[+]. Take that, Putin! Now you have suspiciously cheap beer😊?
Strange world of what goes around, comes around. In the 1990's under the Yeltsin, Russian state-owned assets were sold to US and European businessman for 20 cents on the dollar. Now it reversed. Putin has overseen one of the biggest transfers of wealth ever within Russia as huge swaths of industries are now in the hands of increasingly dominant Russian players. As a matter of fact, according to Forbes and Reuters[+] in 2023, Russia got 22 new billionaires. Furthermore, Russia capitalized on Western companies’ violations of contract obligations. For instance, Russia seized[+] more than $1 billion from German firm Linde as an arbitration court in Russia has ruled to confiscate the assets of that firm over its refusal to honor contract obligations to build a gas processing plant. The German firm received an advance payment from a Russian firm RusChemAlliance (RCA) in 2021 but, after the EU launched its sanctions campaign against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, the company suspended the work, citing EU restrictions. According to the court, work under the contract did not fall under EU sanctions.
✅ Western sanctions (28.595[+] sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities) are hurting more the West[+][+] than Russia (it profits from it), which disabled the West to fund the war in Ukraine and enabled Russia to win the war. Russia is effectively circumventing sanctions by selling oil above the price cap or importing western chips for its drones and missiles. 87%[+][+][ꚛ] of the world – 163 countries refused to sanction Russia despite major NATO coercion.
✅ West froze Russian assets but then Russia had the legal right to reciprocate and freeze Western assets[+][+] which are estimated to be higher in value, so Russia won through it or at least did not lose anything by it. The biggest losers are those foolish Western thieves who thought they could get away with it. It's like trying to steal someone's wallet only to find out they already lifted yours, and yours had more cash😊. The EU & US tell the world by it that if you keep assets in their countries and they decide that you “misbehave”, they’ll take your assets and do what they please with them. Like your bank grabbing your money if you fight with your neighbor. All the talks about punishing Russia by not just freezing but seizing over $300 billion in Russian central bank assets and giving it to Ukraine is only by the dumb for the dumb who don’t read the news[+] about Russia retaliating by using income from the frozen assets of Western investors in the same amount, which means that Russia loses absolutely nothing by it.
Politico reported[+][ꚛ] that Latvian central bank governor claimed that without stealing there’s no winning, so those who feel they must steal to win are clearly losers. While the thieves were looking for a legal loophole to steal Russian frozen assets, Putin signed a decree[+] allowing foreigners to swap their frozen funds in Russia for blocked Russian assets abroad, whereby he outsmarted the West. Western nations – G7 countries, the EU, and Australia froze more than $330 billion in Russian central bank assets held abroad (most of it in the EU – assets worth $226 billion or €207 billion; almost all of it is held in Belgium by Euroclear, a financial services company). An additional $200 billion of Russian reserves remain unaccounted for. The Russian “assets” represents the blocked[+] gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Russia, as well as the property and accounts of sanctioned Russian politicians, entrepreneurs, media employees, members of the management of large companies, etc. Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin claimed[+] that the G7’s assets in Russia are “more numerous than Russia’s frozen funds” in the West. Western investors' assets are effectively locked in special so-called type "C" accounts in Russia could face the same fate. It is not clear exactly how much money is in these accounts but Russian officials have said[+] it is comparable to the $300 billion of frozen Russian reserves. Bloomberg wrote that in return, Russia has frozen Western assets in the amount of over $150 billion, adding that many investors are afraid to say that they have investments in Russia, and therefore it is difficult to calculate the exact amount. But RIA Novosti claimed[+][+] that the data it obtained shows that direct investments by the EU, G7 countries, Australia and Switzerland in the Russian economy amounted to US$288 billion at the end of 2022. Additional disadvantage for the West is that by the act of freezing Russian assets, they repelled foreign investors and states to invest their reserves in the West, so they feel safer to do it in Russia than in the West! If the West confiscates (as opposed to just freezes, which is a theft) Russian assets, such illegal[+][+][+] measure would harm Europe’s perception as a safe place to store money, and could lead countries to move away from euro-denominated assets, harming the bloc's plan to increase the international use of the euro, as well as be a sign of the unreliability of the US when it comes to safeguarding other countries' reserves, undermine faith in the dollar as the used currency in global trade, and other countries will be less willing to keep money in Western banks due to the risk of confiscations, it would ruin western financial systems because other countries would remove their currency reserves from unsafe western states and would only increase the dollar and euro inflation and drive food and energy prices in the west even higher. Seizing (not just freezing) Russia's assets could pose a significant threat to the global monetary system and entail unforeseen risks, which include risks of litigation, risks of countermeasures, and risks to the international monetary system. This implies that if the confiscation is carried out, it could push the Global South further away from reliance on the dollar. Also, Russia’s legal rights to the proceeds from its assets could present a sizable financial risk for Euroclear[+]. Euroclear Bank, which hold Russian funds and holds over €37 trillion in assets globally, could face liquidity issues if overwhelmed by a multitude of lawsuits.
More than 3,5 million[+] Russian citizens owned blocked assets amounting to 1,5 trillion rubles (over $16 billion). Russian people whose assets were frozen or confiscated/stolen[+][+] by the West got from Putin a compensation in form of shares of Western frozen assets[+], so their losses were cut that way. Western countries have frozen the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to the tune of $58 billion[+] (the total assets of Russian oligarchs are estimated to be worth $1 trillion[+]). When they seized the Russian oligarchs’ assets, the West had hoped that the oligarchs would rebel against Putin but with this, Putin outsmarted the West. As a matter of fact, according to Forbes and Reuters[+] in 2023, Russian billionaires increased their wealth by $152 billion – their total wealth increased to $505 billion from $353 billion. And Russia got 22 new billionaires (in total 110). Also, EU court ruled[+] in favor of some Russian oligarchs, which is a big blow to the EU’s sanctions regime against Moscow. So, all illusions that unhappy Russian oligarchs would dethrone Putin were gone.
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✅ Russia has seized half of Ukraine's resources, which has allowed it to fully cover the costs of waging the war. In December 2024, former (2014-2019) Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko said[+] that Ukrainian territory under Russian control with “half of the resource base of Ukraine" would represent a victory for the Kremlin and "fully compensate [it] for its costs of the war." · Russia captured (or Ukraine lost) at least $12,4 trillion[+] worth of energy, metal, and mineral deposits that before the conflict, in 2013, used to generate $43,3 billion a year[+], not to mention all the agricultural profitable land, companies, factories, and industrial zones, as well as around 8 million of tax-payers (Russians collect over $2 billion[+] in tax revenues from four new regions every year) and labor power.
✅ US is going bankrupt – in 2024, at least 686 U.S. corporations filed bankruptcy, 8 percent more than in 2023 and the most since 2010 during the Great Recession when 828 corporations went bust, S&P Global Intelligence and The Financial Times reported[+].
✅ EU is doing worse and worse and may go bankrupt[+][+] – as of August 2024, an increasing number of companies in the EU are going bankrupt[+][+] while new business registrations decrease. The EU has a huge balance of trade deficit– €1,7 bn as of August 2024[+] (in August of 2022, a record low of €432 billion[+]). Problems: gigantic increase in energy costs, de-industrialization, immigrants’ crisis, woke ideological fanaticism, huge increase in military expenditures. Germany and France have been the EU’s economic engine but France, the European Union’s second-largest economy, is effectively bankrupt[+] and Germany is in recession with the German manufacturing sector being rendered uncompetitive[+]. Germany’s once-mighty Bundesbank is losing money[+].
Russia won the geopolitical war
✅ Russia has depleted[+][+][+][+][+][+] and defeated or dissolved[] NATO, as the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis said “we could be looking at the last days of NATO”. What NATO did to the USSR in the late 1980s, Russia is in the process of doing to NATO that eventually must reap what it sowed.
✅ “Putin has become the leader of the global South”[»][»] – French philosopher Luc Ferry
✅ Over 87%3[+][+][ꚛ] of the world (163 countries did not sanction Russia; 165 did not provide weapons against Russia) is siding with Russia and standing up against the Western hegemony – all the countries that have been harmed by NATO members. NATO only got couple countries to side with them while Russia got the whole world on its side.
✅ The West or NATO got isolated – the West attempted to isolate Russia but it backlashed with them getting isolated. Turns out, they dug a pit for... themselves. They were so delirious digging, they didn't notice they were digging their own grave😊. For instance, Financial Times run an article[+] in July 2024 about “Isolated Germany.” The West has just a few allies (Australia, S. Korea, Japan) that go along with its policies (sanction[ꚛ][ꚛ] against Russia and aid[ꚛ][+] to Ukraine) whereas the rest of the world is either neutral or siding with Russia[»]
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✅ China and Russia doubled down on their ties[+] which is the opposite of what the US wanted. The sanctions that the West imposed on them and other threats from the West have naturally brought them together to trade with each other more rather than the West with trade between the two countries more than doubling[+] from $108 billion in 2020 to $240 billion in 2023. Ain't love grand! Washington's plan to break them up with a classic 'divide and conquer' scheme was a total bust as that bromance bond was forged in steel 😊.
✅ Western hegemony is over, multipolarity is taking over, just as Russia and China wanted. The era of the West’s global dominance finally came to an end with the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and the conflict in the Gaza Strip, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell wrote on his blog[+] in Feb. 2024: “The era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended.”
✅ The West has never looked weaker, not only in general, but specifically vis a vis their support for Ukraine. All of their recent attempts at portraying a unified front look increasingly hollow and desperate. The facade is literally falling apart before our very eyes, showcased most poignantly in Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko admitting[»][+] already in October 2023 that Russia is winning the war
✅ All the NATO-funded armed conflicts in the world are harming NATO members and favoring[+][+][+][+] Russia because this is NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine[*][+]. Many other fronts have been opening up where the US and its NATO allies felt compelled to intervene militarily, most notably in Israel, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Africa, and Haiti[+][+][+], as well as on its own southern border with immigration crisis. When NATO has to disperse its military aid and forces across many fronts or save it for the imminent war with China, this obviously weakens them in their fight against Russia. Emboldened by Russian victory against NATO, besides Palestine, several nations have risen against their colonizers among NATO members and their allies.
NATO (mostly French, but also US[+][+][+], German[+][+], UK[+], Netherlands[+], Italy[+], Spain[+], and other[+]) troops have been expelled from several African countries, primarily in West Africa, due to shifting geopolitical dynamics, anti-French sentiment, Russian help (e.g., Wagner Group), and local demands for sovereignty: Mali (2022)[+], Burkina Faso (2023)[+][+], Niger (2023)[+], Chad (2024–2025)[+], Senegal (planned by September 2025)[+], and Ivory Coast (2025)[+]. No wonder Macron is acting desperate and vengeful at Russia. Also, NATO troops partial withdrawal from Iraq[+].
By the way, NATO leaders have tried to weaken or defeat Russia by making attempts to open a second front on Russian borders such as in Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia or Azerbaijan, hoping that dispersion of Russian military forces would enable Ukraine to defeat Russia but as it always happens “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,” the opposite happened with NATO falling victim to that scheme, even without any Russian doing. So, NATO had to shift, when Israeli-Palestinian war broke out, as well as in Syria, Yemen, Iran, Africa, and Haiti[+][+][+]. USA pulled[»] air defense away from Ukraine to the Middle East to cater to Israeli needs, so Ukraine is learning[+] the hard way, what it means to be a disposable proxy for USA. Ukrainians are paying an ultimate price for absurdly assuming they are the center of the universe.
✅ After the "EU-Israel-Saudi Arabia-India" transportation corridor ended with Israeli-Palestinian war, with its "North-South" corridor, Russia nullified British and American military bases, which controlled the main routes of world trade and thus held the world economy hostage, and so Russian economy got a huge boost as well increasing its geopolitical power as most of the world producers are tired of Anglo-Saxon4 dictate, etc.
✅ De-colonization of Russian allies in Africa and Middle East such as Syria, Niger and Palestine, which disempowered the US, UK, and France. Despite fighting a war against NATO in Ukraine, at the same time, Russia managed to kick out France from Africa, as Russian Wagner fighters helped the locals to de-colonize themselves.
✅ The Western countries have huge immigration problems with immigrants or refugees flooding over their borders as a result of decades of NATO's faulty foreign policies that impoverished their Latin American, African, and Eastern European neighbors – imposing sanctions, exploiting their natural resources, corrupting their politicians, imposing either overpriced or junk American food, products, and services…
The surge of millions of illegal immigrants at the US-Mexico border has caused such a huge crisis[+] in the US that it prevented many American lawmakers to approve funds ($61 billion for military aid) for Ukraine until the issue with border is solved.
Polish, Slovakian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian governments imposed Ukrainian grain blockade in April 2023 and extended it in September 2023, which has disrupted Ukraine’s wheat and corn exports (its main export earner) weakening the Ukrainian economy and so its military power. It has also strained relations between Kyiv and its neighbors to the point that Poland[+] and Slovakia[+] stopped supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Polish protesters had been blocking access to Ukrainian border checkpoints since early November 2023 (truck drivers, farmers, miners, hunters, beekeepers and others did it to block the duty-free and thus much cheaper agricultural imports from Ukraine and the EU climate neutrality policies that threaten their existence). This led to economic and social problems in Ukraine as well as delay in military supply.
Russia won the legal war that Ukraine initiated against Russia:
✅ Russia claimed victory in Ukraine's complaint to UN court under two conventions[+] in January 2024.
The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague rejected[+][+][+][+][»][ꚛ] most of Ukraine’s terror financing and discrimination case against Russia in January 2024. It rejected a case filed by Ukraine in 2017 alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine a decade ago and has discriminated against Crimea’s multiethnic community since its annexation of the peninsula. ICJ refused to designate Russia as an 'aggressor state' on principle, and denied that the DPR and LPR [the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics] are terrorist organizations. Regarding the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ICJ concluded that "there is no discrimination against Crimean Tatars or Ukrainians in Crimea". ICJ also rejected all of Ukraine's claims for compensation from Russia. It rejected Ukraine’s request for Moscow to pay reparations for attacks in eastern Ukraine blamed on pro-Russia Ukrainian rebels, including the 17 July 2014, downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 passengers and crew. The court refused to find Russia guilty of downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Worth noting is the fact that Russia won it despite president of the Court being the American judge, Joan Donoghue.
✅ Russia claimed victory so far in Ukraine's complaint to UN court under the Genocide Convention[+] submitted in February 2022.
For time being, the decision is confined to the procedural question of the court's jurisdiction. However, at this preliminary stage, the case has fallen apart. The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague completely rejected[+] all Ukrainian claims to the effect that Russia had allegedly violated the Convention and abused it to justify the beginning of the special military operation. As a result, there remains only one question for the court to consider – whether Ukraine committed genocide in Donbass. In other words, Kyiv has put itself in the dock within the framework of its own claims – they’ve ‘shot themselves in the foot’. The court ruled[+][+] that Russia was right that the Court has no jurisdiction to judge Ukraine's allegations of genocide by Russia. By 12 votes to 4, the Court upheld Russia’s preliminary objection that false allegations of genocide, and uses of force based on them, fall outside the scope of the Genocide Convention. Instead, the case will proceed to assess whether Ukraine committed genocide in the eastern parts of the country, whether this was a valid pretext for Russia's SMO. A final, legally binding decision is likely still years away. Ukraine will NOT be able to rely on this case in order to, for example, obtain from third states the confiscation and transfer of Russian state assets that they had frozen, because no reparation of that kind will be due. Together with the previous ruling, Ukraine suffered from a major disappointment in its ‘lawfare’ efforts against Russia.
➡ Ukraine initiated an arrest warrant for Russian president Putin but failed to get him arrested, as Russia, just like Ukraine, the US, and many other countries, does not acknowledge the ICC, so Russia does not need to comply. Very important fact is also that Putin is not convicted, only prosecuted by a pro-Ukrainian system of justice – the verdict is still pending. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev[+] and some Russian commentators asserted the arrest warrant paper will go nicely with the toilet paper in president Putin's bathroom.
➡ In March 2025, the European Court of Human Rights found Ukraine guilty[+][+] of failing to take measures to prevent violence and save lives in Odesa on 2 May 2014[+][+][+][»], when extremists set fire to the House of Trade Unions massacring several dozens of pro-Russian activists who were there collecting signatures for holding a referendum on federalization of Ukraine and giving the Russian language a state status. Under the ECHR's ruling, Ukraine must pay the applicants varying amounts to compensate for the damage suffered as a result of the actions of the authorities, as well as in connection with court costs. According to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, 48 people were killed and over 240 injured but Russian sources claim 116[+] killed.
Russia won the military war
✅ Russia won all battles – Mariupol '22, Bakhmut '23, Avdeevka '24, and Kursk '25.
✅ NATO-Ukrainian Kursk invasion[+] failed[+»] in March 2025 (completed on 26 April 2025[+]); none of the key objectives[»][»][+] (create a strategic foothold in Kursk to use as a bargaining chip in negotiations, to stall Russian advances and divert forces from Donbas[+»]) were achieved while wasting[+][+][+][+] their precious military resources and losing over 76.550[+][+] troops to massacre civilians there just like Nazis did in the WWII. Despite all the NATO support, aid, training, and according to Zelensky[»][+], 60.000 Ukrainian troops in January 2025 still fighting in Kursk, Ukraine failed to retain control there. And because of it, they lost elsewhere even more troops (over 50.000[+] troops every single month) and territories (around 4.000km2[ꚛ][ꚛ]) in Ukraine – during the 8-9 month Kursk invasion, from beginning of August 2024-26 April 2025, they lost 207[+] Ukrainian villages and towns – all in vain. In other words, Russia defeated Ukraine.
✅ NATO-Ukrainian 2023 counteroffensive failed[+][+][+][+][+][+][+]; none of the key objectives[+][+] were achieved. Despite all the NATO support, aid, and trainig, Ukraine failed to retake its territories and push Russia out. In other words, Russia defeated Ukraine.
✅ The evidence of a victorious Russia’s Special Military Operation is, by military means, Russia achieved all its objectives: prevented Ukraine from joining NATO, liberated its folk in Donbas and then some (occupied fifth of UA that used to belong to Russia with all its natural resources), kept Crimea, largely denazified and demilitarized Ukraine (and even NATO to a large extent).
✅ Russia seized one-fifth of Ukraine, more than it initially planned (to liberate Donbas). Western and Ukrainian losers try to spin their defeat by pointing out that that Russia failed to conquer the whole of Ukraine but that was never their intent.
✅ Russia demilitarized both Ukraine and NATO, whose officials admit[+][+][+][+][+][+] that their military stockpiles are depleted while those of Russia have increased[+].
✅ Russia became the world's number one military power in 2023, according to military strength rankings[+][+][ꚛ] by US News & World Report (the owner is Mortimer Zuckerman, a son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants[+], thus no Russian propaganda). It remains as such in 2024[+], too.
✅ A surge in military volunteers[+][+] due to the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack on 22 March 2024.
Like all other Ukrainian-backed terrorist attacks on Russia's soil killing many civilians, this one too prompted many Russians to join the army to revenge, thus Ukraine is the best recruiter for Russian military. The Russian Defense Ministry has registered an increased influx of volunteers willing to sign up as contract soldiers – in just 10 days, 16.000 Russian citizens signed up in the wake of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. Ukrainian[+] proxies killed 145 civilians (6 kids) but got thousands more soldiers for Russian army – guess how many Ukrainians would they then kill?! During interviews conducted at that time, most candidates said their main motive for concluding a contract was a desire to avenge those killed in the tragedy that occurred on in Moscow Region. Ukraine, on the other hand, has struggled to replace its fallen troops. Many Western media reports[+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+] have highlighted manpower shortages as a growing crisis for the Ukraine’s armed forces, and Zelensky changed[+] the law to draft younger conscripts to make up for the shortfall, which is evidence of lack of manpower, a lack of men signing up to join the army.
✅ Russia is outperforming the whole west by a factor of 4 – NATO’s General Secretary Rutte admitted[»] that in January 2025: “Russia is producing in 3 months what all of NATO is producing in a whole year and they have less bureaucracy so they can move quicker.” But the real number is even higher, especially when it comes to ammunition as self-reported and corroborated in the article on Military Equipment[*]. NATO: "We are not ready, just don't tell Putin" 😊.
The Other Indicators of Who Will Win the War in Ukraine[*]:
The Gross National Income, GNI, formerly referred to as gross national product (GNP), measures the total domestic and foreign value added claimed by residents, at a given period in time, usually a year, expressed in current US dollars using the World Bank Atlas method.
SMO = Special Military Operation
Nearly 90 percent[+][+] of the world is rejecting Ukraiana and NATO agenda and mostly siding with Russia, which is evident by the fact that out of 195 countries in the world, 165 countries refused to provide any military aid to Ukraine and place sanctions on Russia despite NATO's coercion
Anglo-Saxon are originally Germanic people who migrated from northern Europe and settled first in England and then also in the US (British royal familiy the Windsors are also Germans)