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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.

High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows extensive damage.

A crater approximately 60 meters wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, along with visible damage in the surrounding area that was not present in images taken earlier in the month.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russia used to have some of the most advanced rocket science labs and physics programs in the world.

This is a truly sorry state of affairs for a country that has been strip mined from within.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're also not looking so hot right now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their economy is growing while Russia is shrinking, and Russia started all of that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Their economy is growing

It absolutely is not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have to disagree. Ukraine is getting hurt, but they're pretty successfully fighting off Russia. They sank a lot of Russia's Black Sea fleet despite not having their own, caused nuclear-sized explosions in Russia, destroyed hundreds and hundreds of military jets and helicopters, took out several fucking AWACS, destroyed tens of thousands of armored Russian vehicles, killed hundreds of thousands of troops invading their home, developed very successful new weapons systems, held Russian territory for over a month.

The Kremlin has dragged the Russian economy into the dirt and the only "help" they'll get after their barbaric land grab fails is one-sided deals with the CCP and India. Meanwhile, Ukraine has already received many billions of dollars worth of support from many different countries, and is on a path to membership in maybe the most valuable economic bloc on the planet.

Ukraine is getting beat up, but Russia is being destroyed.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

The Kremlin has dragged the Russian economy into the dirt and the only “help” they’ll get after their barbaric land grab fails is one-sided deals with the CCP and India.

Seems like they've been doing a brisk and lucrative trade in fossil fuels with those two, plus Korea and Japan and Turkey. But that's what is driving a sharp divide between eastern and western bloc nations. Definitely witnessing a reconfiguration, with Russia looking more like China's Canada. But its deeply naive to believe Russian oligarchs aren't profiting handsomely from the exchange.

Ukraine is getting beat up, but Russia is being destroyed.

The folks insisting that China is going to waltz in and claim Russia seem blissfully ignorant to mass privatization of Ukrainian public lands and capital. Ukraine is being balkinized in real time.