250,000 casualties since February

They can always just nationalize whatever industries and resources they need for the war, right? Time to seize the means of production once again!

You want the UN to finance Hamas then be dismantled? That seems unnecessarily complicated.

WW2, Korea, Vietnam, both Iraq Wars, and Afghanistan - plus a few smaller conflicts

Unfortunately, Russia’s metric for horrific losses is the USSR in WWII, so they’ve got millions of bodies to go before it’s time for second thoughts.

Russia’s casualties since 2022 are about the same as US casualties for all military operations in the past 100 years.

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Since the fighting is (currently) done by men somewhere in the 18-55 range, it’s actually much more than 2% of the relevant population.

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If I had to guess, this is probably more about the oil industry than online retail. Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin is a close associate of Putin’s and has previously suggested putting refineries under their control. The warehouse attacks are expensive and disruptive, but they’re nothing compared to the fuel crisis.

Those aren’t minicomputers.

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There’s no way I’m actually eating the rich. That’s probably how they got the brainworms in the first place.

That’s not true, St. Petersburg also matters.

It won’t drop to zero because it turns into something you can burn for warmth.

In times of trouble, it’s easier to sleep with cash under your mattress.

I once met a guy who’d been in a dance troupe while serving in the PLA, which seemed weird to me but I guess it’s not much different from being in a military band or something.

The CEO was pardoned by Trump late last year and is/was in talks to run Trump’s crypto scam.

Russia definitely doesn’t need $500 million/month leaving the country, especially when they’re canceling bond auctions because there’s not enough liquidity. Kind of surprised they haven’t done anything about it.

Pictures you can smell

They won’t let guys escape this time - expect stuff like closed borders and an internet lockdown so people can’t spread information or coordinate. They signed a law recently allowing them to seize assets and cut off government services for Russians abroad convicted in absentia for a variety of offenses, so anyone who does leave will probably lose anything they can’t take with them; I’m sure any family members left behind will somehow be guilty of something.

But, yeah - worsening their existing demographic and economic problems is real fuckin’ dumb.