I expect Margorie Greene to introduce bills for lend lease to Russia to conquer Ukraine. Too bad for her that Russian rot is too deep

I expect Margorie Greene to submit bills for emergency lend lease to Russia to aid in its subjugation of Ukraine

The problem is that the rot on the Russian side is too deep\

Quote

Faced with an acute loss of advanced components and industrial equipment as a result of Western sanctions, the Russian defense industry will simply be unable to compensate for its losses in the foreseeable future. The Kremlin is adopting measures to restore some of its lost military power by giving priority to quantity instead of quality in its arms manufacturing efforts. Yet increasing the productivity of domestic defense corporations is hard, if not impossible.?

Much is revealed by examining Russia’s defense budget. The planned 2022?national defense (ND) budget?was 3.51 trillion rubles ($57.4bn), which rose to 3.85 trillion rubles after the all-out invasion began. In addition, 2.82 trillion rubles were planned for national security and law enforcement (NSLE.)?

This latter element plays a significant role in the analysis of Russia’s military spending, because the Russian national guard (Rosgvardia) including its Chechen units, plus some units of the FSB and other law enforcement agencies, are directly involved in the war. Presumably, Russian mercenaries like the Wagner group are indirectly and at least partly funded by this element of the budget, which may amount to a third of the NSLE spend

end of quote

Having said that, what options does Margorie Greene have ?

A;. Stage a sit in for Russia in the House

B. Stage a blocking of all governmental spending to try to force Biden to give Lend Lease to Russia

C. Have a new January 6th incident in 2023 with her compatriots to storm the House and Senate to force them to give full funding to the Russian Military

It will be interesting, and at this juncture there is the option of calling a state of Emergency due to Margorie Greene in 2023. Do I think it will come to that ? Only if Kevin McCarthy goes along with it

We are in for brutal times. Greene wants to subjugate the entire EU to Vladimir Putin and the Russian Mafia, and it is decision time for Kevin McCarthy. Will he enable this ? Decision time is imminent

quote

Doomed to Failure — Russia’s Efforts to Restore its Military Muscle

EUROPE'S EDGE NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE REGIONAL SECURITY RUSSIA November 15, 2022

Pavel Luzin

After almost nine months of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has burned through, and seen destroyed, enormous stocks of arms and munitions. It cannot fully replace them.

Photo: Russian T-80BV tank on fire. Credit: OTU "Pivnich", Military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=463092205554584

Faced with an acute loss of advanced components and industrial equipment as a result of Western sanctions, the Russian defense industry will simply be unable to compensate for its losses in the foreseeable future. The Kremlin is adopting measures to restore some of its lost military power by giving priority to quantity instead of quality in its arms manufacturing efforts. Yet increasing the productivity of domestic defense corporations is hard, if not impossible.?

Much is revealed by examining Russia’s defense budget. The planned 2022?national defense (ND) budget?was 3.51 trillion rubles ($57.4bn), which rose to 3.85 trillion rubles after the all-out invasion began. In addition, 2.82 trillion rubles were planned for national security and law enforcement (NSLE.)?

This latter element plays a significant role in the analysis of Russia’s military spending, because the Russian national guard (Rosgvardia) including its Chechen units, plus some units of the FSB and other law enforcement agencies, are directly involved in the war. Presumably, Russian mercenaries like the Wagner group are indirectly and at least partly funded by this element of the budget, which may amount to a third of the NSLE spend. The rest, some 60%–65%, is usually earmarked for the ministry of internal affairs (police, migration service, etc.), the ministry of justice, emergency providers, prisons, prosecutors, and other services mostly absent from Ukraine.??

In ruble terms, the budget is higher than in previous years and inevitably so; that is due to the?huge materiel losses?in Ukraine, continuing defense industry financial losses and the Kremlin’s decision to make Russia more authoritarian in economic as well as political terms.??

The aggression has changed the fragile balance of the defense budget. Monthly updates of defense and national security spending have been classified since June, but before this national defense spending in January-April alone was 1.6 trillion rubles, around 500 billion rubles monthly in March–April. This was significantly higher than in previous years and its extrapolation gives an annual total of at least 5.5–5.6 trillion rubles by the year’s end. Despite a recent?leak?from the Russian government indicating national defense spending would reach 4.68 trillion rubles this year, additional spending for arms procurement alone was?officially estimated?to be at least 600bn–700bn rubles (pre-war, the share of arms procurement was to be 1.8 trillion rubles for all of 2022.) Russia’s real national defense spending will inevitably be much higher; it is equally reasonable to suppose that the national security and law enforcement spending will be much higher too.??

This financial turbulence may become even worse as the budget deficit grows. Fiscal revenues were originally?planned?to be 25 trillion rubles, with spending at 23.69 trillion rubles. Yet in November, planned revenues were unchanged while total spending is now?planned?to be 29 trillion rubles.?

end of quote

Andrew Beckwith, PhD