Europe Must Strike At Russia's Weakest Point
12- 28.09.2025, 12:53
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(updated) No empire has ever survived at such costs.
Russia has refocused its economy on its military, which has opened up new opportunities for it, but it has also revealed a major weakness that the West can exploit.
The Forbes publication pointed out several of Russia's weaknesses.
European military planners should pay more attention to taking out Russia's struggling economy.
Although GDP growth has turned positive again, the economy is actually in some sort of prolonged recession or, at best, stagflation. The labor market, banking sector and consumer sector are points of vulnerability. The long-term effect is that the economy's potential is being eroded by "military Keynesianism".
The U.S. Department of Defense has begun to bring financial market experts into its strategic teams to devise strikes against the vulnerabilities of its adversaries' economies; Europe should do the same.
There are also many measures to neutralize Russian banks and companies, and to stop proxy trading through parts of Eastern Europe. Europe is already engaged in a shadow war with Russia and is unlikely to get much help from the current U.S. administration. It needs to focus on Russia's weaknesses.