• WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com
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    Excuse me wtf. I mean drafting people to invade another country is already fucked up enough. Charging money to return bodies? What. The. Fuck. So is the russian army just gonna accept this? C’mon man, do a coup.

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        1 year ago

        You say that like the military would see a single red ruble of that payment rather than it going straight into the commander’s rainy day fund. He had to go and get Conscriptovich killed in the first place, that’s hard work and deserves compensation.

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          I like you! I love the image of a russian official hiding away a dying currency in their mattress, “just in case”.

          All the while the absolute downpour around them makes that moment the rainiest day on record.

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      Helps keep them massage the causalty numbers if they don’t have to return all the bodies …

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      1 year ago

      The only cartoonish thing here is obvious (and very stupid) Ukrainian propaganda.

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    1 year ago

    Insider was unable to independently verify the claim.

    Look, I side with Ukraine in this conflict, but this info is coming from a Ukrainian human rights group. I think I’d assume that this is propaganda that might contain a grain of truth.

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    1 year ago

    I’m sitting here watching Jack Ryan season 3 and Russia is portrayed as this big bad world super power and it’s endleslessly laughable.

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      🤣🤣🤣

      Yeah… that season was a little interesting. They definitely wrote it before the war as it has not aged well.

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        1 year ago

        It’s ok with good production values but the latest season is terrible.

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            It’s a Tom Clancy IP so CIA and US military worship is a given.

            But the last season was so inept. The season finaly was specially terrible immitating badly a similar scene from Sicario. And it was a real slog getting there with their convoluted, ridiculous and boring take on “Clear and present danger”.

            I don’t mind consuming propaganda/CIA Mary Sue but it at least has to be entertaining.

            The recently released series Lioness does a much better job even if Taylor Sheridan recycles his “cartels working with Islamic terrorists” plot point from Sicario 2 which I find way too far fetched.

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        I’ve heard figures up to $30k, I think, but 1. reports on whether these are or are not paid out reliably don’t seem conclusive to me 2. I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t a regional coefficient, and these are Moscow numbers 3. wrestling them out of the system must be hard, and now there’s also $SUBJ.

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    1 year ago

    Feels like a kickback scheme: you need a body to get benefits, you must pay us to get the body…

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    1 year ago

    If there is a terrible way of doing anything, Russia goes that route.

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      1 year ago

      Russia is what a country run by only Republicans would look like. Desolation and grift everywhere. In short, in the wise words of orange man, “a shithole country”.

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    1 year ago

    Anyone else feel two massive countries (Russia and China) are lurching from serious crisis to crisis (war, economic slowdown) and just feels like the “I’m in Danger” meme?