• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      2 hours ago

      They can’t. Russia’s economy is only war now. Large parts of the private sector went bankrupt some time ago. Stopping the war would also cause an economic crash

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        44 minutes ago

        plus 1million+ men fled russia early in the war too. since russia has 144m people, they lost 1/14 population from that alone, and then the “deaths and casualties”

        • staph@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          39 minutes ago

          Sorry the math ain’t mathing. 1M is a lot, and russia has significantly damaged its demographics, but the math just ain’t mathing

          • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            36 minutes ago

            Nah, it works out fine. If you lose 1 in 144, that clearly calculates to 1 in 14. Maybe even 1 in 1. Anybody seen Russia lately?

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    8 hours ago

    If only we could figure out WHY everything there sucks… Couldn’t be the leadership, could it? Naaaah. Could it though?

    How about we remove the one in charge since all accountability should be at that person’s feet. Hmmm. Such a conundrum. Guess we’ll never know.

    (Fucking snakes never know when to just fuck off. The Epstein class and the rest of parasites are ruining our world— when are we going to stop this already??? So tired…)

  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    9 hours ago

    How many times have we heard this story? Russia days away from collapse, Putin with cancer dead in weeks, Russia is fighting with WWII shovels, only 1 week left before Russia is out of weapons.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 hour ago

      Being in a war is bound to become more expensive the longer it drags. Most people, with their instant gratification, think Russia will fall any minute now, but reality is far more of a slow burn. It was obvious from the moment Russia failed to subdue Ukraine, that they would repeat the consequences of their Afghan invasion nearly 40 years ago. The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan was a slow burn that dragged for 10 years, in which the economic costs-- along with mitigating the disaster at Chernobyl-- contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union.

    • ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Exactly. Dude’s pointing Solovjov at Elvira Nabiullina. They would have been buggered years ago if she wasn’t such a genius (or allowed to resign). Now they’ve even burned through their gold reserves.

      Twisted wiener up their own ass buggered 👉👌

  • fisch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    12 hours ago

    Don’t worry guys, I’m sure the oligarchs and their families will be fine.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    10 hours ago

    I do not trust the Russians and Vlad can carry on wrecking his country. Just remember, Russia signed the Budapest Agreement and fucked it all up. Zero sympathy.