The Day Moscow Couldn't Hide The Damage - Jason Jay Smart

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In five days, Ukraine retook 201 square kilometers, that's 78 square miles, because Russian units simply could not see. Satellite disruption did not just blur maps; it broke the chain.

This tactical blindness is a symptom of a much larger collapse. Russia is fighting a war on borrowed time, and the math is failing first in the supply chain rather than the front line. This briefing connects the mechanism from start to finish: rail debt creates a freight choke, which pushes costs directly into fuel and food. Those rising costs trigger defaults, and the Kremlin answers the pressure with tighter control and fear. When a country runs on rail, a bottleneck is not just an inconvenience. It is a national vulnerability.

The hard reality for Moscow is that you cannot use propaganda to fix broken logistics. The state can sell assets, hike tariffs, and slash investment, but every one of those moves quietly admits to the mounting stress. Meanwhile, high interest rates do more than just punish consumers. They make corporate refinancing brittle, creating a default wave that spreads through the real economy. When households are forced to spend a massive share of their income on basic food, public patience shrinks fast, even inside loyalist circles.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: Russia’s Frontline Logistics Collapse
01:20 - Russian Railways: The $50B Bankruptcy Crisis
02:43 - Kremlin Fire Sale: Russia Liquidating National Assets
03:49 - Russia’s Fuel Panic: Wholesale Gas Prices Skyrocket
04:21 - Russian Banking Collapse: The Systemic Default Trap
07:05 - Crimea Under Fire: Ukraine Strikes Belbek Airbase
07:48 - Ukraine’s Deep Strikes: Russian Airports Shut Down
10:32 - Russian Meat Grinder: 7,000 Soldiers Dying Weekly
12:04 - FSB Police State: 150,000 Russians Informing on Neighbors
12:43 - Russia’s Hunger Crisis: Food Prices Hit 16-Year High
13:40 - Putin’s Final Default: Why Russia Has No Solution