They are a nation state run by an unchallenged leader. They can afford to throw up to 10-20 million people into the meat grinder by the end of the war.
The only downside is that their male to female ratio is already 87 men to 100 women.
That ratio is only going to get worse till the end of the war.
None of that has an impact on Putin.
The war goes on.
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Is there a way I can gash in on this?
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Did you think the term "russian mail order bride" was euphemistic?
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But what happens to Russia when Putin dies? Since the only thing that unites this country appears to be a strong leader I expect it to be torn to dozen of states just like the USSR did.
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who knows. Modern medicine will keep hi alive till 90. For all we know he sets a new world record for oldest leader of all time.
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They are just waiting to finish it because they can. It will be less lives lost.
Russia has fixed themselves to be the most powerful ground army in the world right now.
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Wrong. You cannot kill a cornered animal that easily.
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Pretty much. Putin can't afford to lose this war and the only group that cares less for Russian lives than Russians themselves are their leaders. While long-term demographic collapse is definitely a W for the West, Putin throwing away their irreplacable Soviet inheritance of heavy weaponry is the real
That and 'someone' (
) blowing up the natural gas pipeline doesn't allow Germany to throw Russia an economic lifeline when its over (you know they would have, day +1).
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true.
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thanks for the incredible insight
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God I can't wait for all that primo free Russian gash
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