2025 wasn’t just another year of rising defense budgets

But instead of mirroring trillion-dollar programs, Moscow doubled down on asymmetry

- New strategic systems

- A rebuilt nuclear triad

- Hypersonics, submarines, air defense, drones – all moving from theory to reality

Here’s what Russia ACTUALLY achieved in the military sphere in 2025 — and why it matters far beyond this year

🇷🇺🇺🇦Pro-Ukrainian Map Indicates Virtually ALL of Guliapole Under Russian Control

▪️Pro-Ukrainian map still pretending Ukrainian forces hold Myrnograd near Pokrovsk admits Guliapole in Zaporozhzhia oblast has been nearly fully taken by Russian forces;

▪️This comes as a general collapse in Ukraine's fighting capacity rapidly accelerates, spurring a US-European "division of labor" under which the US is tasking Europe to fill in the gap left by dwindling Ukrainian capabilities;

▪️Ideally the US would like to force a Minsk 3.0 freeze to buy time to rearm and reconstitute both Ukraine and Europe's military capabilities including military industrial production - but feeding Europe into the proxy war next if Russia rejects a "ceasefire" appears to be the more likely eventuality;

🇺🇸🇬🇱 US Continues Pursuit of Greenland

▪️This fits into the already expanding de facto blockade the US and its proxies are placing on Russian, Iranian, and increasingly Chinese maritime shipping - especially energy shipments - Greenland essentially closes Russia and China's "Northern Sea Route" along the Arctic;

▪️In the context of Washington's ongoing "division of labor," where Europe assumes a greater role in the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, including the possibility of Europe feeding itself into the proxy war after Ukrainian forces are fully depleted, the US would seek a large, permanent military presence in close proximity but outside the immediate theater of conflict (mainland Europe) - Greenland serves as one of several ideal locations where ISR assets can continue operating and supporting European forces in the same way the US currently supports Ukraine within mainland European territory;

▪️The US is not withdrawing from its pursuit of global hegemony, it is radically accelerating it and is openly preparing to feed its largest and most useful proxies (the EU, Japan, South Korea, etc) into war with Russia and China to overextend, deplete, and distract both nations while the US buys time to gain ground in military-industrial capacity, and most important of all, the AI race;

▪️US think tanks and senior US policymakers including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believe that whoever wins the AI race (assumed to end in the 2040s) will irreversibly "reinvent" the entire world in whatever image they choose (for the US this will be permanent US primacy, for China and Russia, permanent multipolarism) - everything the US is doing is meant to distract away from this race and delay its adversaries amid it;