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Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Russia's police force is in crisis, with officers are quitting to become taxi-drivers and couriers.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, he can’t threaten Russians with nukes… surely

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History would say, yes he can.

Russia has some areas that are so polluted with radiactive waste, they will probably remain so far beyond mankins history on earth.

Directly dropping nukes on them, who knows, Tsar Bomba had a larger blast radius than they expected and while detonated in a low population area, Russia was never really concerned with making sure it was a no population area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Russia was never really concerned with making sure it was a no population area

"It's a no population area now" ~Russia, probably