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It starts to look like they will even win in the long run.
Ukraine: motoring on with stacks for the whole year already secured.
Russia: throwing the last everything into the battle to look like they can continue indefinitely.
“102 Russian casualties per square kilometer” I doubt Russia can keep this up, even with help from north Korea
Ukraine will be the worlds largest producer of sunflower seeds for decades.
Russia enjoys more resources than Ukraine, but supplies are not infinite, and neither is the endurance of the Russian people.
Are the Russian people really suffering? If they were, wouldn’t there be protests or attempts on Putin’s life?
I think suffering is relative: has there been a time in recent history of Russia that wasn’t associated with some degree of struggle for the average inhabitant? And there also wasn’t ever a timeframe long enough where any form of healthy opposition could be institutionalized to endure over longer durations.
Also I’d say that by Western standards even the pre-war living conditions of many Russians would qualify as poor. So their scale is vastly different to ours.
That’s how things go in a democratic system. In a totalitarian dictatorship, where you risk your life even when going out in the streets with a blank sheet of paper, it’s a totally different story.
If, for one, I would be more angry at the Russian top leaders and oligarchs who do not have the courage to open the window for Putler a bit whenever there are protests.
If the people dare to get uppity, the shadier parts of government blow up an apartment complex, blame it on the protesters and use that as an excuse to hunt them down.
They don’t even need an excuse. They’ve already passed laws that make it illegal to criticise the current government or even call the war in Ukraine a war
