Patrick Bury
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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What we're seeing is the quality and the desire of norm, the quality of the troops and the desire of people to serve in Russia now is decreasing.
There's a recent video of a parade of about a company's worth, so 100 Russian, and they're all just so old, Pat.
It's really interesting to see, you know.
And obviously drawn from the much more poorer areas of Russia and sort of pushed out the door by their a lot of the time by their women who are like, well, I want a new fridge, for example, so you can go and fight and potentially die for that.
Now, the question of the drone technology and how it has advanced very quickly in Ukraine, I'm reading that one of the drone systems they have can penetrate as far as 1,750 kilometers, which gets it well into Russia.
Yeah, well, when we're talking about drones, obviously you've got the sort of smaller loitering ones which provide constant ISRs, so intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, maybe...
other ones which have light warheads on, which are then used for targeting, etc.
And you can have, of course, dual use of these.
They're the much smaller ones.
Then you have the longer, single-use, heavier payload, and in some cases used for basically strategic depth, so to target.
um in this example russian oil refineries uh which they have been doing to good effect so that's the development of this sort of the twin capability which has been really interesting in terms of the wider strategic impact and hitting russian oil production which of course as we're seeing the economy is increasingly under pressure um it's just a pity the iran war has happened because if that hadn't and the uh sanctions on russia had remained i think
the timescale for things getting really difficult for the Russians would have been much shorter.
Now, do we know what is actually happening within Russia?
Because obviously Ukraine is a Western-facing nation, and you hear a lot more about the damage inflicted by the Russians, you know, when they send over multiple attack drones themselves, and you see video of apartment buildings being destroyed and so on, and we hear about casualties.
Do we know much about what's happening in Russia?
The last time I kind of checked on the economic and oil output, it was down, the output and the revenue was down by about a third, which over time is very significant given their military spending, et cetera, has generally gone up and they've switched into a kind of militarized, securitized state.
The other one is since the Venezuela operation and whatever Putin has learned from that, there's been basically a internet slowdown slash back out across much of Russia.
So there's clearly a fear that whatever means was used in the Venezuela could be used against Putin again.
So I think there's paranoia there.
There's a blackout as well.
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