Vladimir Putin recently won reelection as Russia’s president by a wide margin, making him the country’s longest serving ruler since Josef Stalin. Both men have also uniquely presided over their country’s largest-scale conflicts, throwing support to the argument that economic sanctions placed on countries during war only serve to entrench rather than dislodge their leaders. But the long-term sustainability of a war-style command economy remains less clear, with notable examples of North Korea and arguably the Soviet Union itself raising real concerns of how people can fall behind over time without a relaxing of the central authority. Tonight, we are rejoined by Lance, our frequent military expert and contributor to help us unravel some of the mystery of the military and economic machinations of the Putin regime and how it compares to other stratagems in America and around the world.
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Lance’s new book: Caesar Bellator - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1957583193
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-- References --
- FM100-2-1 The Soviet Army Operations and Tactics, US Army (1984) - https://archive.org/details/fm100-2-1/mode/1up
- The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare, Clark (2022) - https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-fall-and-rise-of-russian-electronic-warfare
- Ukraine loses 16 US-made armored vehicles, group says, but Kyiv's forces still gain territory, CNN (2023) - https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-12-23/h_677ac2bebb1d8324ffd538ac5124876e
- Putin's war fired up Russia's economy and beat sanctions - but big problems lie ahead, Summa Money (2024) - https://summamoney.com/investing/the-daily/putins-war-fired-up-russias-economy-and-beat-sanctions-but-big-problems-lie-ahead/
- War against Ukraine to cost Russia $1.3 trillion in lost growth - Secretary Austin, The New Voice of Ukraine (2024) - https://ca.news.yahoo.com/war-against-ukraine-cost-russia-183000980.html
- Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine, CNN (2024) - https://www.wral.com/story/exclusive-russia-producing-three-times-more-artillery-shells-than-us-and-europe-for-ukraine/21322737/
- Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Russia at War - Command Economy (Myth20c - Ep277)