Just another sign that Russia is going broke.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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No, it's genius, see? You take their stuff to boost the treasury, then you criminalize homelessness. Once they're in prison, you recruit them for the meatgrinder at the front, so you're getting new soldiers too! /s
Things tankies won't read issue 1001
The "Russia has more freedom than the US" narrative is almost as confusing to me as the idea that Trump is someone you want to represent you. I know people think this but I just can't understand how they also are able yo navigate the day to day requirements of life.
Like, how do they determine what food to eat? Nothing but Pizza Pops eaten thawed but cold? How do they survive?
Instance blocking is a wonderful thing. I have gone weeks without thinking about tankies (until this comment).
Conservative leadership is cancerous to a country. In Russia's case, it's terminal.
I feel terrible for the normal (e.g. non-conservative) Russians. I hope the remaining normal people can flee the country or avoid conscription.
It's not "conservative leadership", it's simply "mob leadership".
The right wing had realized that they can justify a lot of malfeasance just by looking "strong and decisive".
TLDR; Russia is broke.
Kind of reminds me of what the Nazis did to their enemies
How to tell everyone to leave the country. Astounding how they are destroying their own future.
Well I guess they've got to do something. Russian casualties are something like 4 times more than those of the American military in its entire decades-long participation in the war in Vietnam 50 years ago. With so many of the angry patriotic men dead or on their way to death, at some point the remaining population will be getting more and more anti-war just by attrition.
What an abysmal shithole