RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Vladimir Putin’s latest address to the United Russia party exposed a massive historical paradox: the dictator is leaking more truth between the lines than he actually realizes… 🪆📉 When he rants about the West “testing Russia on a serious level” and admits to a “difficult period,” he is fundamentally describing a regime that has lost all strategic initiative and is stuck in a reactive panic. The ground reality can no longer be masked by state TV propaganda: Infrastructure Collapse: Ukraine’s precise drone quarantine is leaving mega-refineries (like Slavyansk-na-Kubani) in ashes, compounding a catastrophic domestic fuel crisis with dried-up pumps and endless

Vladimir Putin’s latest address to the United Russia party exposed a massive historical paradox: the dictator is leaking more truth between the lines than he actually realizes… 🪆📉 When he rants about the West “testing Russia on a serious level” and admits to a “difficult period,” he is fundamentally describing a regime that has lost all strategic initiative and is stuck in a reactive panic.

The ground reality can no longer be masked by state TV propaganda:

Infrastructure Collapse: Ukraine’s precise drone quarantine is leaving mega-refineries (like Slavyansk-na-Kubani) in ashes, compounding a catastrophic domestic fuel crisis with dried-up pumps and endless lines.

Military Defeats: Elite air defense systems (S-300/S-400) are being obliterated in the Kerch region, a third of the country’s commercial flight fleets are grounded due to sanctions, and insider leaks reveal emergency evacuation blueprints for Crimea.

Political Fractures: Putin is actively purging volatile warmongers like Dmitry Medvedev from electoral lists, recognizing that the Russian public is utterly exhausted by war and surging inflation.

The most telling sign from Putin’s rhetoric is the sudden, defensive shift. The grand, arrogant promises of conquering new lands and reshaping the Western security order have quietly vanished. Instead, the focus is now entirely on surviving and protecting their own borders. When a tyrant stops bragging about expansion and starts pleading for survival, it tells you everything about the true state of the empire.

— @jalle51 Jun 29, 2026