ticho

At first, I read "wedding robots" and my mind went in weird directions. :)

Can it, though? :)

My condolences, and welcome!

I would guess the manpower drain of their costly Ukraine war has a larger effect than the sanctions. They are simply running out of people to work on stuff, throughout the country.

So, you turn to vodka. Again.

I must be doing something wrong with my 15 years old Debian installation, then.

Nukes. That's the only reason Russia is still even on the map.

If you ever need to ask yourself this, you ain't no friend of mine...

They don't seem to be getting destroyed, though...

They are supposed to pay it out to families of the soldiers. But they skirt around that by simply not retrieving their dead and wounded from the battlegrounds, and marking the soldiers as unknown/missing, thus deferring the payments indefinitely.

There have been multiple reports of wives/widows trying to find out what happened to their husbands, or at least to collect the money, with the military admin stonewalling them.

I think they chose to focus more on the human warmth and positive vibes, and, dare I say, normalcy, to contrast with Trump's themes of hate and inhumanity that his campaign even seems to be ratcheting up in these final days.

He smirked at the compliment. “What’s discipline got to do with winning?”

That right there tells me all I ever want to know about Trump and how he sees competition.