Poverty is a given. Right now economically speaking they'd be better off just retreating than taking over Ukraine - replacing all of the infrastructure they've bombed to shit and demining the fields they need to farm will take potentially decades and will cost niggillions of rubles. And that's just Ukraine, you have military stock to replenish, veterans to reintegrate into society, wounded and crippled to care for, so on and so forth.
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Poverty is a given. Right now economically speaking they'd be better off just retreating than taking over Ukraine - replacing all of the infrastructure they've bombed to shit and demining the fields they need to farm will take potentially decades and will cost niggillions of rubles. And that's just Ukraine, you have military stock to replenish, veterans to reintegrate into society, wounded and crippled to care for, so on and so forth.
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