Put it next to the Tupperware container that contains the story of Russia selling titanium to the CIA so the U.S. could manufacture the SR-71 Blackbird (85% titanium construction) and use it to overfly and spy on Russia. Russia is not the sharpest tool in the shed. You seem to have a lot in common with Russia, comrade.
Russia's economy is being badly damaged by a lack of young men to work in it, because they are off fighting Putin's war (or they managed to escape the country during conscription). Inflation is expected by Russia's central bank because of it. How Russia’s shrinking workforce is wrecking its economy
(I posted this in the China thread by mistake. It belongs here.) Russia shuts down its "troll factory". They will no longer produce trolls to infest the internet. If you have a Russian troll infesting your web forum, you can ask for a refund. You won't get one, but you can always ask. It turns out the trolls were working for Prigo, and were disbanded when Prigo was disbanded and rebranded. Russian 'troll factory' accused of interfering in US elections shuts down after exile of Wagner boss Is there anyone else that is going to miss our troll? Anyone? Just kidding. No one likes a troll.
Seems that both Ukraine and the US have fallen into a dependency trap. Explained … Ukraine, in its desperation to ‘free itself from its old Soviet overlord’, has become wholly dependent on American largess. Thus, the US enjoys complete leverage over Ukraine and calls the shots, even if that entails the thoroughgoing destruction of Ukraine and hundreds and a generation of men laid to waste. The US, on the other hand, cannot supply the weaponry Ukraine requires to thwart the Russians and can only hope there are a sufficient number of Ukrainians willing to die to effect some nebulous humiliation of Russia (which does not appear to be in the offing).
The young people what are left are those who didn’t have the gumption or drive to get out. They already had a below replacement birth rate. Things won’t be getting any better anytime soon.
At last check, Russian birthrate is in the midrange, wherein falling birth rates are a global phenomenon. Set aside the ten million or more new Russians as the result of last Fall’s referenda.
Well, after their little tangle with Ukraine, they're going to reeeeeaaallly need to pick up the pace, to make up for lost Ruskies. I mean like orgies, no abortions, and maybe stipends for extra kids.
Looks like Russia just lost something of great value, and will likely never get it back: the Arctic Ocean. It now belongs to NATO, according to the Brits. Russia has permanently lost the Arctic to Nato It almost makes one feel sorry for those (un)lovable losers. Almost.
2020-21 Russia’s population hemorrhaged because it panicked as badly as we did during that period. During the war against US with Ukrainian bodies, I suspect Russia is losing fewer troops than Amerikrain by multiples. But all of this Russia doomsaying is silly when you consider that Russia lost upwards of 25 million in the last war it considered existential.
Their population was far younger and more virile in their last war. They're facing the same demographic population bomb the rest of the world is facing, except that the rest of the world didn't throw a significant portion of it's most fertile young men into a meat grinder buzz saw. NB: Russian should be pushing 300 million ppl like the US, not languishing at <150 million, like Mexico. They best get to loving, and stop warring.
Russia isn’t losing enough men in this war to offset growth. Ex: it’s lost maybe 40,000 vs gaining millions from elections. Now Ukraine is going down the drain thanks to Washington and its puppet Zelensky. And of course the US is losing men to men becoming women.
40,000? Ouch. ...and that's Putin's number, right? (which I'm sure is less that slaves counted in US back in the slave days, according to the Putinian exchange rate...). But OK, I forgot to account for the peaceful obedient Urkanians that will surely live as quietly and cooperatively as regular trained ruskies, IF they can ever get past the first 10th of UKR that they occuppy.
Thatta boy! Now you’re thinking like a fanatical Banderite: “I don’t care if we lose a hundred just so we kill a Russian!” That’s a winning strategy and Joe Biden approves! See: Kyiv Institute survey.
No comprende. Perhaps you misunderstood my quote. 1. If Putin says 40,000 died, I'm guessing it's probably like 120,000; 2. They might add Ukrainians to Russia's borders techincially...but those Ukes will never be productive obedient citizens. They'll be rebellious and damaging until they regain their freedom from Moscow. But yeah, I guess you would get to tabulute them in your census numbers. Technically. As for celebrating killing "100 ruskies for each Ukie"--seems like you've mistaken me for Vlady.
Putin hasn’t said how many have died. Although I’m sure he believes too many for his solace. 40,000 is the last estimate I saw from the radically anti-Putin source Mediazona in conjunction with the BBC.
