In Russia, the kind of people who publicly call for Vladimir Putin to resign, well, they usually end up falling out of windows.
So, now that ordinary Russian citizens started doing exactly that on camera with their faces visible, well, it makes you wonder what changed over the last few weeks that Russians are not worried anymore.
Because answer to that question tells us something very important.
Putin is losing something that he has spent decades, multiple decades building.
The thing every dictator survives on.
Putin is losing fear.
You see, so many different things are breaking down inside of Russia that Russians just don’t care anymore.
The Russian stock market just posted its biggest single day collapse in 3 years.
The Russian central bank is now running a Ponzi scheme to keep this war going.
And it seems like Ukraine is just destroying Russian factories and Russian refineries every single day.
And this is exactly why Russians are just losing their minds.
Even Russian propagandists who have spent four years dismissing every single Ukrainian success are now publicly saying that something is going wrong and they’re melting down openly.
So in this video, I want to walk you through everything that has happened in last 48 hours.
Why ordinary Russians are doing something genuinely dangerous and why Putin’s biggest red line was just crossed without consequences.
My name is Sam and let’s get into all of this.
Starting with the biggest news.
To understand why Russian people are speaking out now, we have to understand the financial pressure that hit Russia this week.
You see, just days ago, the Russian stock market collapsed nearly 5% in a single day.
That’s the largest drop in last 3 years.
And some of the biggest companies actually fell by 10 to 15% in just a single day.
Now, here’s why that drop matters.
Because last time this happened was in September 2022.
That was the month when Putin realized that his 3-day special military operation was going to last longer than 3 days.
So, he announced a partial mobilization order.
And this is when Russians just lost their minds.
Many Russians took to the streets and started protesting.
other Russians, high value Russians, just started fleeing the country and Putin was actually forced to publicly walk back parts of his plan that he had already announced.
That was the last time when the market crashed like this.
But this time there has been no mobilization.
So the question is what triggered a crash like this? This is where we have to look at the Russian central bank.
The Russian Central Bank just announced that it is injecting five trillion rubles, roughly $70 billion into country’s banks.
That’s a lot of money.
But the reason this is dangerous is because what that money will be used for.
You see, we already know Putin doesn’t have enough money to keep funding his war.
Because oil revenues just keep collapsing because of sanctions and of course Ukrainian drone attacks, aka long range sanctions.
And the Russian government, Russian budget heavily, and I mean heavily, depends on that oil revenue.
And as Napoleon once said, you need three things to win a war.
Money, money, money.
Putin doesn’t have that money, and he has to get it one way or another because he’s not stopping this war.
Let’s be honest.
So, the Russian central bank is now printing $70 billion, handing it to private banks so they can buy bonds from the government so Putin can basically continue funding his war.
It’s basically a Ponzi.
It’s a loop.
The central bank can just give that money directly to Putin, but they’re pretending to be a independent institution and giving it to banks which are then going to give it to Putin.
Unfortunately, the stock market is not falling for this trick and that’s exactly why the smart money is leaving the Russian stock market.
It does make you wonder though, why was smart money in the Russian market to begin with? But nonetheless, we’re not going to talk about that here.
Now, for Russian elites, this is not a big deal.
They can probably pull that money out of the market.
they can park it in Switzerland or maybe even in London.
They have lawyers who can figure out things that you and I would think would be impossible.
So, I’m sure they have ways around whatever problems they have, but it’s the Russian public that’s suffering and they’re speaking out against Putin.
We have a clip coming out from a Moscow resident who’s just showing her face and publicly speaking about the fact that Putin needs to resign if he cannot solve all these problems.
Why did he start this war? And now that he doesn’t have a plan to stop Ukraine from attacking Moscow, maybe he should let people who have a plan run the country.
Take a listen because this is not something you probably predicted would happen.
>> I’m watching videos of explosions in Moscow region, Capotia, Lennengrad region, and many other places.
We’ve been watching explosions in Belgrad and Brians regions for years now.
Putin, where is our security? When you decided to launch the special military operation, you didn’t ask us the people.
You didn’t ask anyone at all.
Ensure our safety and if you can’t get out, resign.
Let’s call for his impeachment.
Did he think before he did this? Before he announced the SMO, he must have understood that the air defenses are useless, that the budget has been looted and that corruption is everywhere.
He must have understood that.
If he didn’t understand that after ruling the country for a quarter of a century, well, he’s just a degenerate and inadequate person, all the more reason for him to resign.
Now, I understand why in 2022 when mobilization was announced, millions of people, not only men, but women, children, the elderly, left Russia.
>> Why did they leave? >> Now I understand.
>> People are jailed for a lot less.
In fact, just two days ago, a Russian resident from the town of Kousbas was fined for publishing a video criticizing Putin.
And they’re not even trying to hide it what this fine was for.
This is what the judgment says.
The fine was for negative assessment of president of the Russian Federation expressed in the form of subjective opinion of a person with a male type of voice in whose remarks there are words relating to coarse, abusive, and profane language.
Russia has so much freedom of speech that they are publicly telling you that you’re going to get fined if you criticize Putin.
And in an environment like that, we have residents now publicly speaking out and asking him to resign.
By the way, this was not an isolated incident because I know some of you guys are going to go down there and comment saying, “Hey, it’s just one clip.
Why is it such a big deal?” Guess what? We have more clips.
Take a look at this second one again from Moscow.
Same week, similar message.
A message addressed directly to little Vladimir.
So take a listen.
>> I am addressing Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
I will not call you again esteemed Vladimir Vladimir Putin because your people, our people, not your people, but our people do not respect you at all anymore.
You are a thief, a murderer.
You have completely destroyed our country.
Destroyed state farms, collective farms, no fields, no farms.
Nothing is left.
Now you have sent our men to fight for some god-forsaken patch of land which we do not need at all.
We do not need it.
We have no need to be shelled.
We have no need for our children, husbands, fathers to die on these.
We need them to live at home in their own homes, to build state farms, collective farms to get their country back on its feet, which you have, you are definitely of Jewish nationality.
Pack up, clear out to live with your Jews.
You are not needed here.
You are destroying our country.
And when Ukrainian citizens bomb our country, you therefore run and hide in bunkers.
Now it’s starting to make a little bit of sense why Putin wanted to keep this war far away from Moscow and St.
Petersburg.
He did not want the elites of Russia to suffer from a decision he made because he knows what happens next.
Unfortunately though, that’s the thing with wars.
They are easy to start but very hard to stop and they’re very unpredictable.
Putin wanted something that was three days long and now in its fifth year the war is truly coming home.
In fact, just yesterday Ukraine did something that Putin had previously said would be a nuclear red line.
Aka if Ukraine does something like this, he would use nuclear weapons.
They targeted a Russian military factory using Western missiles.
Take a look.
Here we have a clip.
>> Basically, it hit the building.
soing hard that it blew the roof right off in several floors.
Everything is engulfed in flames now.
I’m [ __ ] speechless.
That is the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike on a Russian military plant in Rosenev.
The plant produces guidance components for Russian missiles like Iscander and KH 101.
Same missiles that Russia uses on Ukrainian civilians and of course Ukrainian apartment blocks and cities.
Ukraine is going after arrow makers instead of just trying to shoot down arrows.
And the military factory is not only the important part here.
The missile that Ukraine used is also important.
It was a storm shadow missile.
It’s a British-made missile with American components inside.
And guess what? Back in 2024, right after the election here in the United States, President Biden authorized Ukraine to use attack missiles inside of Russia.
And right after that authorization, UK also followed up by authorizing Ukraine to use storm shadows.
This is when Putin just completely freaked out and he made one of his most explicit nuclear threats ever.
He basically said that, “Hey, if Ukraine uses this in Russian territory, that means we’re going down to a nuclear war.
” Take a listen.
This clip is a bit long, but it’s an important clip for the next part of the story.
So, pay attention to what Putin is saying.
But when it comes to the use of westernmade high precision long range weapons, it is a completely different story.
>> The fact is that the Ukrainian army is not capable of carrying out strikes using modern westernade highrecision long range systems.
It cannot do this.
This is only possible with the use of intelligence data from satellites which Ukraine does not possess.
>> This is data only from satellites either of the European Union or the United States essentially from NATO satellites.
Second, and very importantly, perhaps the key point is that flight missions for these missile systems can essentially only be entered by military personnel from NATO countries.
Ukrainian military personnel cannot do this.
Therefore, it is not a question of whether to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not.
It is a question of deciding whether NATO countries are directly participating in the military conflict or not.
If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States and European countries in the war in Ukraine.
This is their direct participation and this of course significantly changes the very essence the very nature of the conflict.
This will mean that NATO countries, the USA and European countries are at war with Russia.
And if this is the case, keeping in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created for us.
Now, back then I said that Putin is bluffing.
Russia has been bluffing about nukes all this time.
Russia just doesn’t have permission from its big master China to use nuclear weapons.
But that doesn’t stop them from, you know, using the threat to get what they want.
But unfortunately, Putin once again has been caught with his pants down.
Now, this wouldn’t be the first time, but it seems like this time it may be a bigger problem than before because Russian war bloggers are having a complete meltdown or Putin basically doing nothing after his red line has been crossed.
Take a look at this report.
The Russian Z channels are having an absolute meltdown right now.
A powerful Ukrainian persistent strike using advanced cruise missile, likely Storm Shadow or Scalp, just completely wrecked the semiconductor plant, the literal backbone of Russia’s military microchip and military production chain.
Local officials confirm multiple specialized workers killed and dozens injured.
Russian war bloggers are horrified, screaming that the government is ignoring the threat and naturally demanding that London should be nuked in retaliation.
But the absolute best part is insane mental gymnastics.
Pro-war blogger Alexi Zulv is crying on Telegram, calling the attack cowardly because it happened during the daytime when factory was full of people.
He literally claims that Russia takes a much more humanitarian approach because they only bomb Ukrainian targets at night to save lives.
Sure, because Russian midnight missile strikes on Ukrainian apartment blocks are famously gentle.
Now, to make matters even better, the missiles struck right during a nationwide minute of silence in Russia.
That I didn’t know.
The silence is to basically honor the troops who have died or who are fighting.
And that’s when Ukraine decided to strike.
I doubt that was on purpose cuz missiles take time to travel.
But I feel like it was very, very great timing.
The destroyed semiconductor facility relies heavily on sensitive western equipment that is impossible to replace under current sanctions.
Good luck manufacturing new Iscander or KH 101 guidance systems anytime soon.
Absolute peak comedy for the Russian coping factory.
Now this is the same issue Russia is having with refineries.
You know, Russia built the refineries I think in the ’90s after the Soviet Union collapsed and a lot of Western countries went into Russia to build these refineries and these companies used Western components to build the refineries because it’s just quicker.
But now that Russia is under heavy heavy sanctions, I think it’s the most sanctioned country in the world.
Well, when Ukraine destroys some important part in the refinery, they cannot just replace it using, you know, exports from Western countries because they’re sanctioned.
Now, of course, that doesn’t mean Russia is not able to get their hands on those western components.
There’s like this whole shadow market where Russia can buy something by pretending to be in Dubai or Africa or Asia, something like that.
But that does mean that Russia has to spend more time and it’s a lot harder to get the amount they need.
And the fact that Ukraine has been able to hit Russian refineries at a regular basis, that means Russia is just having a harder and harder time replacing the components in their refineries.
And that’s why just recently Russia announced, by the way, that the Moscow refinery that was hit just a few days ago, the refinery where the cap went in the air, it was just flying to space.
Well, that refinery will not be able to operate again for the rest of the year.
That’s definitely good news for Ukraine.
Now, anyways, let’s talk about some lighter side of the story.
As you guys know, internet has been having a field day with all of this and the memes have been spectacular.
So, let’s get to our meme segment.
And you guys know the rule.
Hit the subscribe button down below if you’re enjoying the memes and let me know in the comments which one is your favorite.
Take a look at the first one.
The first one is Zillinsky just cooking up Putin.
And I’m sure Putin is not having a good time.
Pretty self-explanatory.
And then let’s go to the next one.
The next one is a call back to one of my favorite quote from the late great Senator John McCain.
McCain famously said that Russia is a gas station run by the mafia masquerading as a country.
The line has stuck for years because it’s perfectly true.
But guess what? I think the line is not true anymore because Russia is not a gas station anymore thanks to Ukrainian sanctions.
And that’s a Ukrainian military general, I think, saying, “Hey, that’s not true anymore.
Russia is now importing oil from Kazakhstan because the demand has shot up during summer, I think.
” And Ukrainian drones are destroying Russian refineries, so they can’t really export anymore, so they are importing.
This might be the first time ever they’re doing that.
But nonetheless, there are a lot of firsts that Putin is heading under his rule.
Ever since he started this war, he became the first president to have an arrest warrant from the International Court of Justice.
He became the first Russian president to get invaded.
He became the first nuclear country to get invaded because when Ukraine went into Kursk, well, a lot of firsts were written down in the record books.
So, drop your favorite memes in the comments down below.
And before we end, just a one quick interesting fact.
Did you know that Putin is now called the new Zar because he’s been ruling for such a long time, but he’s actually connected to the old Zar? We covered this in detail on our Instagram this week.
So, take a listen.
Putin has often been nicknamed the new Zar of Russia, and for good reason.
He’s ruled the country for roughly 26 years.
Take a look at this picture.
This girl has never known a ruler other than Putin her entire life.
But did you know the new Zar is actually connected to the old one? Zar Nicholas II.
You see, Putin’s grandfather was the chef for Rasputin.
Then he cooked for the Ramoff family.
Then after the Russian Revolution, he became the chef for Lenin and later Stalin.
And now this chef’s grandson is the newar of Russia.
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