Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

Russia and two things falling. One would be the Rubel and the other is morale. We have two different stories that kind of align to

paint a picture that is not going to be well received in the Kremlin.

Okay, so let's start with the Rubel.

The Rubel is now worth a penny.

One Rubel, one penny.

That's where it's at at time of filming now the exchange rate of the ruble is

kind of When the ruble starts to drop people get nervous picture it the way Americans look at the stock market

Even Americans who are not invested in the stock market view it as kind of a picture of overall economic health.

Now admittedly it's kind of not but the perception is there and when you are talking about resolve for an ongoing

conflict perceptions all that matters. So that has occurred and a penny to a ruble is the point where people are going to start really becoming uncomfortable.

There's going to be a lot of unease.

Now at the same time, we have a video that has surfaced from some soldiers in Ukraine, some Russian

soldiers in Ukraine. The video is directed to the Committee of Soldiers

Mothers of Russia.

This is a group that's been around a long, long time, and their whole thing is taking care of and

addressing mistreatment of Russian troops.

That's what they do. In this video, they say that their morale is at the minimum level,

floral level type of thing, which that in and of itself isn't surprising from the context of the video

they appear to be relatively new troops about two weeks when they filmed it.

They go on to say that during their 10-month stay,

they, prior to shipping out when they were getting training

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