Those soldiers didn’t appear out of thin air though, they’re all able-bodied workers, many of them are likely the main providers for their families too.
These soldiers come at the cost of the Russian economy and puts even more stress on suffering families.This is a direct result of the Pro-Russian Republican Party working to cripple US support for Putin’s enemies.
Sure it is.
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And how well is the country doing? So many men dead for nothing. Probably not good in the long term. Even if they “win” the war. What will they have actually gained?
The breadbasket of Eastern Europe.
And less people to feed. Russia used this war as a way to eliminate it’s poor and it’s prison population
Was Russia running low on bread?
Putin’s vanity for the history books. Russian blood for Mr. “Look at me! I’m better than you!” A disgusting monster.
They will then be close to closing one of the defensive gaps that requires them to have a military which will soon be too big to maintain with their future demographic collapse.
Their economy had the most growth out of any G7 nation last year.
Being reported as “False”, but you aren’t wrong.
vs. Russia at 3.6% due in large part to explosive military spending.
Reading that does not make you think good economy.
Oh, it’s not, it’s just better GDP than the G7.
Better if you think that spending two brand-new top-notch hospitals a day on war is better than spending it on, random point from a loooong list of points, fixing district heating so people don’t freeze in their apartments.
If Russia was traded on the stock market their valuation would be close to negative: Management is ignoring opportunity costs, stuck scalp-deep in the sunken cost fallacy.
Also those GDP numbers tend to use standardised methods based on self-reporting, that kind of stuff can’t be trusted in Russia’s case it’s better to go by what erm investigative economists produce. Extrapolate GDP from cheese consumption based on old cheese popularity scores and whatnot.
It’s all on unsustainable borrowing from the future, so it’s all an illusion. Even if they win the war, they may not recoup that enough. Putin has gone all in on this.
Campbell’s assessment seems to contradict those of the Pentagon and America’s allies in Europe.
At a meeting of countries that support Ukraine late last month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Russia had suffered more than 315,000 casualties during the war. With a drop in American aid, leading to ammunition shortages on Ukraine’s front lines, Russian forces have advanced. But those too have been costly, the Pentagon has said.
In an interview earlier this year, the chair of Lithuania’s national security committee estimated it would take Russia between five and seven years to reconstitute its forces for a full-scale war.
Hey, how do you do the green line on the left when quoting an article? Thanks
Lemmy uses Markdown to insert HTML into comments. Here’s a very complete guide, and you can search for more if you want. You can also view the source on a comment whose formatting you want to emulate to see how they did it. It’s the little paper icon, if you have it available in your client of choice.
To answer your question directly, a quote is where you start a paragraph with a > followed by a space and then the text you wish to quote: that puts the green line to the left of that paragraph alone.
If you want an unbroken line across multiple paragraphs, put the > and following space in the empty lines between as well.
do you mean starting the line with
>?
Putin 🤝 Zapp Brannigan
I probably need to watch more Futurama, but wasn’t Zapp well intentioned, but completely incompetent? Only kinda fits Putin.
You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kif, show them the medal I won.
Zap was only well intentioned in that he was a narcissist who desperately wanted people to like him. He was a consistent shithead.
He gaslighted Leela into having sex with him. Multiple Times.
They certainly haven’t replaced their losses of tanks, aircraft, armored vehicles, or artillery pieces. And I’m sure the new soldiers aren’t as good as the original batch.
