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Jason Jay Smart

@jjsmart.bsky.social

Джейсон Джей Смарт, PhD. Writes at KyivPost.com. Check out the latest: YT & Substack: @jasonjaysmart.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · 5d ago

⚡️Capturing empty ruins isn't strategic victory. Rather, Putin is burning finite Russian power for marginal acreage while failing every primary goal of his invasion. 👉Russia is not winning. Russia is losing. Full breakdown: open.substack.com/pub/jasonjay...

Why Russia Is Not Winning the War in Ukraine

Grabbing destroyed borderlands cannot hide the reality that Putin has failed every primary political objective of his invasion.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · last wk.

⚡ Ukraine's strikes are a financial kill shot. Every destroyed refinery drains capital Putin can't replace. 👉 Panicked by state seizures, Russian elites flee with $218M every single day. Putin is destroying his own war machine from within. open.substack.com/pub/jasonjay...

The Secret Strategy That Will Break Russia’s War Machine

There's a part of Ukraine's strategy you never realized before that is turning the Kremlin's asset confiscations into a financial trap that can bring down Putin.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · last wk.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ Putin’s paranoia is growing with age - fueled by ever present Ukrainian drones. 👉 However, the dictator seems to understand that the greatest risk is not foreign. Rather it’s someone whom he trusts. My latest with Chuck Pfarrer. open.substack.com/pub/jasonjay...

The Gatekeepers Running the Kremlin

Locked in underground bunkers and fed sanitized war updates by terrified aides, Putin didn't build a shield. He trapped himself in a system that manages him instead of protecting him.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · last wk.

⚡️⚡️⚡️When Putin dies or loses power, constitutional rules won't decide who takes over Russia. Physical control of Moscow will. However, due to his recent moves: Neither the Russian military or the FSB now hold all the cards in the post-Putin era. See why jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/putins-340...

Why Putin Armed the Guards Who Failed Him

Vladimir Putin rewarded the internal security forces that failed to stop a coup with heavy weapons and laid the groundwork for a brutal succession crisis.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · last wk.

⚡️Yesterday was the funeral for Valentina, wife of Ihor Solovei, Director of Ukraine's StratCom Centre. She led international cooperation at Ukraine's secret service. The Russian attack that killed her also destroyed their car & left heavy expenses. PayPal: solovey.ihor@gmail.com Please ReTweet.

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Since Sen. Graham's death, the Russian propagandists have been saying this is a gamechanger benefiting Moscow. Looking at the Senator in official photos in Kyiv less than 20 hours before passing, it is hard to imagine he had "a short illness" before death, as indicated in his official press release

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Jason Jay Smart@jjsmart.bsky.social · last mo.

❗️The next 40 days will be hell for the Russian Federation: President Zelensky has approved a new SBU special operation. 👉Judging from the Kerch/Crimea Bridge this evening, locals don't think that Pres. Zelensky is joking.