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So today we are going to talk about some big changes going on inside Russia, inside Putin's government.

There are, there's a little bit of a shakeup going on and it's worth

going over because what's happening can give us a whole lot of insight into

what Putin believes is going to occur in the future.

Normally when I'm talking about stuff like this I don't go through and name everybody

but in this case it's kind of important.

Okay so Shoygu defense minister been around a really long time in this field

a decade or more. He's out. He's gone. He is going to be

leaving. Why is the obvious question. One, the war isn't going the

way they wanted. Two, he's incredibly unpopular with the troops. Three, one of

his guys just got hit with some corruption stuff. It can be any of those, all of those, or a combination thereof.

The thing is, he's not just being tossed aside, he's being moved to be the secretary of their

national security council. We'll come back to this because this is important.

There's something else there. So who is he being replaced by?

A guy named Bella Usoff, who is that? An economist, a civilian economist, is now going to be their head of defense.

What does that tell us and why is that happening?

Why is it happening?

Wars cost money. It tells us that they view this as going to be a

long war. That's what they see. They see a long war coming and they want to gear the economy to do that.

There's another piece to it.

We talked about how when NATO started expanding,

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