Russia Wasn't Ready for This Economic Beating - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦

[2naSalit]

Russia prepared for tanks, planes, bombs, rockets, men, and material. But it did not prepare for Ukraine to turn refineries, fuel supplies, logistics, prices, work travel, Crimea, and public confidence into the battlefield. Now Russia is dealing with fuel lines, $8–$10 gasoline, shortages spreading across regions, Crimea restrictions, Moscow feeling the pinch, and a population beginning to ask how an “energy superpower” can run out of fuel.

0:00 Russia prepared for the wrong kind of war
1:15 Fuel from China and India becomes a humiliation
1:25 Gasoline prices surge across Russia
1:59 Russians search for how to siphon gas
2:07 Fuel panic spreads to more cities
2:40 Russia looks for money to fund the war
3:14 Scientific and economic strain deepens
5:05 Crimea’s crisis gets worse
6:22 More than half of Russia’s regions face shortages
7:26 Russian officials insist everything is fine
8:26 Moscow starts feeling the fuel crisis
9:02 Russia may buy refined fuel back from India
9:27 Russian anxiety and economic fear rise
11:00 Ukraine’s refinery strikes hit inflation and banking policy
12:30 Thousands try to leave Crimea
13:28 Russia blames panic while imposing limits
14:05 Russian cities begin looking frozen without traffic
15:13 Russia was not prepared for this kind of war
15:42 Fuel shortages begin costing jobs
16:17 Putin’s last myth starts breaking
17:09 The hidden tax of waiting hours for fuel
18:08 Mobile toilets appear in gasoline lines

[multigraincracker]

1. Putin is toast.

[dave99]

2. not until a corpse(s) is/are found