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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:41 AM Monday

Kremlin Civil War After 16 Refineries Destroyed - Jason Jay Smart



Russia's regime is collapsing from within. Ukrainian drones are hitting Moscow, refineries are burning across Volgograd and Sterlitamak, and the Kremlin's defenses are failing. This is why Russian air defenses fail, not from technology, but from betrayal. The war that now matters most to Putin is being fought inside his own government.

Two rival factions are tearing the Kremlin apart. The Hammers, led by Igor Sechin and Ivan Tkachev, use arrests, raids, and intimidation to seize budgets and contracts. The Accountants, aligned with Yury Kovalchuk and the Prosecutor General's Office, use audits and lawsuits to confiscate assets under the guise of legality. Each side is consuming the state from the inside out.

As cash dries up, loyalty disintegrates. Generals refuse to move supplies. Bureaucrats refuse to sign contracts. Every drone strike now detonates twice, once on impact, and once inside Moscow's power networks. Putin's once-loyal enforcers now fear each other more than Ukraine's army. Tanks guard the streets of Moscow not from protests, but from the Kremlin's own soldiers.

This is not a rumor of instability; it is the system itself imploding. The power structure that held Russia together is devouring itself. The same hands that built the empire are now dismantling it, piece by piece, under the red walls of the Kremlin.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - The Vicious Civil War Raging Inside Moscow's FSB
04:52 - Shadow Fleet Sanctions: The New War Economy for Elites
07:07 - The Two Rival Clans: Hammers vs. Accountants
09:57 - The "Atomic Bomb" Law: How Moscow Seized $50B in Assets
11:05 - The Enforcer's Power Grab: Arresting Generals & Harming the Military
12:15 - Why Tanks in Moscow? Putin Fears His Own Enforcers
18:16 - Outro
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1. Thank God for Zelenskyy.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:11 AM
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He gives us reasons to believe there will be life after Trump on this planet.

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