This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

There are news stories, and then there are stories which tell so much more than the facts they reveal. A story out of Ukraine says the Russians are removing official documents and records from occupied Crimea. It says so much more about the situation on the ground than the words do. All bureaucracies work to survive, no matter the situation. If true, it means the Russians are using scarce trucking and precious fuel reserves to move boxes of paper pulp. Scarce trucks that could be bringing food and water and ammunition to the hungry troops.

The world knows of only one reason you evacuate the paperwork first. A clock is ticking. And a quick trip into the future in a time machine would find Crimea without any Russians in it. Bugging out with the paperwork means what it’s always meant. Sometimes they shred the documents, and sometimes they burn them by the ton. Anyway you do it. It always means the beginning of the end.

It says, “We don’t want those Ukrainians to ever lay their hands on these documents, and if we leave them here in Crimea, they probably will.” Never mind the leader’s grand pronouncements. Follow the trucks. If it has reached the evacuation point, what else will they try to hide? Ukraine has put 47% of Russian oil production out of commission. That’s terminal. The bombing of the refineries outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg were symbolic, sending subliminal messages to every Russian motorist. The sky is black, the power is out, and there is no gas. Tell me again, how we’re winning!

My savings are gone; my job is gone. Nearly three million, prime adult, child-bearing aged Russians have left the country. Now throw in the nearly two million Russian casualties. A demographic hole in the population you could drive a Trabant through. A nation of grandmothers and grandfathers without a next generation coming. In swinging with it Moscow where half of the country’s population resides, the deficiency would be hardly noticeable. But once outside the big town; it would become unsustainable. Towns and villages, without any able-bodied men. No one in town under the age of sixty. Try fixing that!

In western Siberia, the regional council has voted to forgo this year’s grain harvest due to the diesel fuel shortage. Just cancel the harvest? Just like that? Won’t people go hungry? Not right away. The council voted they had enough grain in storage for local consumption, but everyone else can go get stuffed! What about next year? We will deal with next year, next year. You know when it reaches the point where you don’t have gas for the tractors? Maybe it’s time to recalibrate your war aims more towards reality.

The Russians are buying refined gasoline from India. Russia sells India discounted crude oil. India refines it and sends it back at the refined, full price. Russia loses on both ends of the transaction to the point where you begin wondering if India is being helpful to Russia or predatory? In either case, it is not sustainable and illustrates their desperation in the face of terminal deactivation. Willing to do anything or try anything, to alleviate what they understand to be a terminal situation.

If Ukraine continues to attack Russian oil infrastructure, the war is over. You can’t function losing half of your fuel. Panic buying is wise, but it only makes the situation worse. If you were a betting Russian. Which way do you think the fuel situation will go? Better safe than sorry, I always say! Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin says there’s no fuel shortage. It’s all caused by panic buying. Those huge, towering black clouds and burning refineries have nothing to do with it!

I guess it was about a month or maybe six weeks ago, when radar sets began to be removed from the Crimean peninsula and repositioned in Moscow. You would think that something like that would be a big news story, but maybe Trump fell asleep or said something especially stupid that day and the media covered that event instead.

Every time the Russians left radar stations in Crimea, they became prime targets for Ukrainian drones. Radar sets that the Russians can no longer replace. Removing the radars from Crimea both protects the radar sets and also protects Moscow. Boy, oh boy! Is that a bad sign or what? It’s another admission of Russian failure. It’s another sign they’re getting ready to bug out. They never in a million years dreamed Moscow would be under sustained attack, when they started this war. Withdrawing the radar sets from the frontline in Crimea to defend the Capitol?

A Ukrainian drone attack destroyed seven, thirty million dollar Russian aircraft. Russia lost 210 million dollars’ worth of airplanes on a Wednesday. Aircraft which the Russians neither have the money or capability of replacing. Aircraft eliminated either by Father Time or Brother Zelensky. It’s not just a Russian defeat. It’s a huge Russian collapse, which could make the demise of the Soviet Union look like a minor stumble.

A currency collapse, a credit collapse, a banking collapse all rolled into one! If I were one of those rich bastards, I’d buy up a million dollars of those .3 cent Rubles. If it ever went up to a dime, you’d be rich beyond a king.  

A demographic collapse which cannot be repaired without colonists. Europe and NATO plan wars and defensive strategies, but Russia has really done it to themselves this time. Europe need not plan for war with Russia as much as planning to prop up Russia. In two years Russia will be lucky, if they can feed themselves.

Albert Speer begged Hitler not to destroy the German infrastructure to leave something for the people who would survive after the war. But to Der Fuhrer there was no survival or after the war. Just like there is no survival or after the war for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The end is only the beginning. Just the turning of another page.

“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.”
― Sun Tzu,